From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New maintainer
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:08:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppxru1j9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5cfvgym.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:20:17 +0200")
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> And it does not take too big a brain to understand why: if people
> were allowed to retract their assignment when they want for changes
> that have been published, the copyright assignment process would
> undermine the whole purpose of the GPL license, which is to make
> it possible to let *others* contribute to free code.
As a maintainer of GNU project, I expect that you should have a basic
understanding of the purpose of the copyright assignment and GPL
license. From what I read above, I am not convinced that you have the
right understanding. Your articulation is clearly confusing and falling
short.
See
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright
You assign copyright to FSF so that you don't have to enforce GPL. By
assigning, one outsources the legal work of actual enforcing to FSF.
Single holder of rights just makes the legal procedures lot more easy.
A contract that cannot be enforced is worthless. A license that you
cannot enforce is equally so.
FSF says, assign me the rights, I will go after all the violators and
force them to comply with GPL.
Jambunathan K.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-18 16:53 New maintainer Bastien
2013-04-18 17:10 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 18:10 ` John Hendy
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:38 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-04-18 19:48 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-04-19 8:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-20 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 8:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-21 12:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-18 18:53 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-18 17:19 ` Glyn Millington
2013-04-18 18:14 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-04-18 18:15 ` Rasmus
2013-04-18 18:23 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 18:20 ` Detlef Steuer
2013-04-18 18:26 ` François Pinard
2013-04-18 19:58 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-04-18 20:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-04-18 20:13 ` Bastien
2013-04-18 20:16 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2013-04-18 21:52 ` Tom Davey
2013-04-20 8:29 ` Ian Barton
2013-04-19 0:24 ` Charles Berry
2013-04-19 7:07 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-19 0:32 ` Bernt Hansen
2013-04-19 1:02 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-04-19 4:12 ` Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda
2013-04-19 6:09 ` Robert Klein
2013-04-19 7:00 ` Christian Moe
2013-04-19 7:58 ` Thank you very much Bastien! Hello Carsten! (was: New maintainer) Karl Voit
2013-04-19 9:36 ` New maintainer Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-19 9:59 ` Sean O'Halpin
2013-04-19 11:33 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-04-19 12:52 ` Adolfo Benedetti
2013-04-19 12:53 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-04-19 14:30 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-19 16:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
[not found] ` <CAFChFyjpy2R10gJmxJ-DKDbAVjj6MnD5JN+vX5bY5MvHbf3z3w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-20 1:03 ` Fwd: " Gary Oberbrunner
2013-04-21 10:24 ` T.F. Torrey
2013-04-21 10:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-21 13:22 ` Bastien
2013-04-21 14:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-21 18:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:39 ` Bastien
2013-04-22 7:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-21 22:18 ` AG
2013-04-22 10:27 ` Julian M. Burgos
2013-04-22 16:53 ` Jay Kerns
2013-04-22 16:55 ` Matt Price
2013-04-23 16:46 ` Jason Dunsmore
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