From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:08:50 +0530 Message-ID: <87ppxru1j9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a9ovye43.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <871ua7zrvt.fsf@gmail.com> <87y5cfvgym.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UStjb-00058H-QM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:39:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UStjX-0005Wd-0l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:39:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y5cfvgym.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:20:17 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bastien Cc: emacs-orgmode Bastien 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.