From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What is a week?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:44:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn219ibd.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edo9ztgj.fsf@localhost>
On 2023-04-24, at 08:26, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>>> Patches welcome!
>>
>> Would gladly do. Has the copyright papers requirement been lifted?
>
> Of course not, but don't you already have copyright assignment done?
> Our records list you as someone with copyright:
> https://orgmode.org/worg/contributors.html
Complicated. I did my copyright assignment (for Emacs and AUCTeX, but
I guess this doesn't matter, since Org mode is part of Emacs anyway)
back when I worked in academia as a mathematician. Now I am
a professional programmer, so I stopped contributing to Emacs -
I suspect I would need to sign a different form. Also, my employer
probably should do the same. And I assume that FSF might want to look
at my contract, which is in Polish, so someone would have to pay for the
translation, too. Quite a lot of hurdles for relatively little gain.
And don't even mention what I think about that requirement in
particular, and in general about copyright law, American law and
American copyright law...
I certainly don't want to sound like a jerk, but I think I do not owe
anything to Emacs. While Emacs is an important part of my life - and it
does make my life significantly better - I do my best to give back to
the Emacs community. I wrote 300+ Emacs-related posts on my blog, more
are in the pipeline, I wrote an Elisp textbook (not free, but that is
intentional - I do not consider GPL nor the "free as in freedom"
approach to be necessarily a good idea for a textbook), I encourage
people to use Emacs (sometimes successfully).
To be clear - I completely understand the "patches welcome" attitude to
people complaining that something doesn't work as they expect -
especially if those people are knowledgeable enough to fix the issue
themselves. I would very probably have done that several weeks ago if
not for the copyright papers requirement. If you think this is a good
idea, I may spend some time preparing a detailed bug report, but please
don't count on me submitting patches.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-24 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-10 3:35 What is a week? Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-10 4:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-10 6:04 ` Jude DaShiell
2023-04-10 7:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-10 11:51 ` Max Nikulin
2023-04-10 12:07 ` Tim Landscheidt
2023-04-11 10:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-24 15:47 ` Max Nikulin
2023-04-11 10:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-11 11:34 ` Max Nikulin
2023-04-11 14:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-23 17:57 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-23 19:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-23 19:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-24 4:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-24 6:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-24 19:44 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-04-24 20:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-06 18:29 ` Bastien Guerry
2023-04-25 14:43 ` [PATCH] org-clock.el: Fix week start != 1 Max Nikulin
2023-05-07 8:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-06 18:27 ` What is a week? Bastien
2023-04-24 15:13 ` Max Nikulin
2023-04-24 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
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