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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? |
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Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:57:27 -0500 |
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>> Given the above, I believe you now realize that this was a mistaken
>> interpretation. You retain all the rights, you just give the FSF the
>> ability to enforce the copyright if needed.
> Which copyright does one give the FSF the ability to enforce?
Only the copyright holder can sue someone for infringement.
AFAIK the things you lose when transferring your copyright to the FSF are:
- the ability to transfer your copyright to someone else (because only
the copyright holder can transfer his copyright to someone else (note
that the copyright holder cannot not "copy" his copyright he can only
transfer it)). This is not something the FSF really needs/wants which
is why there is that clause that says that the FSF gives you the right
to do anything you like with your work (i.e. to gives you back as
much of the copyright holder's rights as it legally can).
- the ability to sue someone for infringement (because only the
copyright holder can do that) which is one of the main reasons the FSF
wants to have the copyright.
- the ability to prevent the FSF from licensing your work under some
licence with which you happen to disagree (tho, IIRC, the paperwork
you sign does include some clause promising that your work will stay
under some kind of Free licence, tho, to try and make sure that
there's not much point for <yourfavoriteevilcompany> to buy/infiltrate the
FSF, since changing the licenses to be non-Free would break all those
copyright assignments).
Stefan
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, (continued)
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/01
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Phillip Lord, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Radon Rosborough, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, George Plymale II, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/02
- Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/02
- A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), George Plymale II, 2018/02/05
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/05
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), George Plymale II, 2018/02/06
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), George Plymale II, 2018/02/06
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/07
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05
- Re: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?), Richard Stallman, 2018/02/05