From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Subject: Re: Copyright of contributions to org-mode Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:12:14 +0100 Message-ID: <51405F0E.1020001@easy-emacs.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjak-000875-BU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:11:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjad-000579-M2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:11:30 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:62390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFjad-00056p-CK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:11:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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 Cc: Carsten Dominik Am 13.03.2013 11:50, schrieb Carsten Dominik: > 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. > > > Hi Carsten, above in this document it's told "For this you need to complete this form, send it to assign@gnu.org, and tell the Org-mode maintainer when this process is complete." Would consider it fair to read after second commata something like "whereof you will receive the copyright-assignement contract. Tell ..." The assignment contract is very different from the disclaimer visible so far. Best, Andreas