From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Copyright of contributions to org-mode Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:50:31 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjGZ-0008Dg-CP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:50:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjGU-0006Bl-J5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:50:39 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::229]:65471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjGU-0006Bf-Ck for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:50:34 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t11so845760wey.14 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:50:33 -0700 (PDT) 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: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org List" Dar all, in the light of the recent dispute, I have now added the paragraph below to http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-2 to clarify the copyright implications of submitting contributions to org-mode. I hope this helps to avoid problems in the future. Regards - Carsten By submitting patches to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, or by pushing changes to the Org-mode repository, you are placing these changes under GPL version 3, with all the implications that has. If at the time you submit or push these changes you have active copyright assignment papers with the FSF, for future changes to either Org-mode or to Emacs, this means that copyright to these changes is automatically transferred to the FSF. The Org-mode repository is seen as upstream repository for Emacs, anything contained in it can potentially end up in Emacs. If you do not have signed papers with the FSF, only changes to files in the contrib/ part of the repository will be accepted, as well as very minor changes (so-called /tiny changes/) to core files. You will be asked to sign FSF papers at the moment we attempt to move a contrib/ file into the Org core, or into Emacs.