Re: Copyright of contributions to org-mode

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 13 mrt. 2013, at 12:12, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> 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 ..."

Sure, I can say this more explicitly.

Thanks

- Carsten

> 
> The assignment contract is very different from the disclaimer visible so far.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Andreas
>