Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2022-08-08 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm also interessed in assigning my copyright to the FSF, for both > gnumach an

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Platen
On Fri, 2022-08-05 at 23:40 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    > ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, > ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. > ]]] > >   > > Seco

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2022-08-05 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Secondly, it might conflict with NDAs in my work. Can you state concretely the

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2022-08-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Opening this file again: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, le jeu. 27 oct. 2016 23:04:26 +0300, a ecrit: > Olaf Buddenhagen writes: > > > BTW, this is slightly off-topic: but AIUI, your main objection to > > signing a copyright assignment is the requirement to provide updates on > > your employer?

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-10-31 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:04:26PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > | 2. Developer will report occasionally, on its initiative and whenever > | requested by FSF, the changes and/or enhancements which are covered by > | this contract, and (to the extent known to Developer) any outstanding

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-10-28 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo writes: > I sent email to ass...@gnu.org today, asking whether they still > use this clause They replied that they still use the clause. I don't think I'll agree to the contract, then.

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-10-27 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Olaf Buddenhagen writes: > BTW, this is slightly off-topic: but AIUI, your main objection to > signing a copyright assignment is the requirement to provide updates on > your employer? This was the onerous clause in 2000: | 2. Developer will report occasionally, on its initiative and whenever |

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-09-28 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:34:00PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Oddly enough, in the fencepost copyright file, I see assignments for > GNUMACH, but not for MIG. Yes, AIUI a gnumach assignment is supposed to cover MiG contributions as well... -antrik-

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Olaf Buddenhagen, on Mon 26 Sep 2016 19:08:15 +0200, wrote: > > Does the same policy apply to MIG as well? > > Since it's formally part of gnumach, I *assume* the same policy > applies... Oddly enough, in the fencepost copyright file, I see assignments for GNUMACH, but not for MIG. Samuel

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-09-26 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:45:58PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Olaf Buddenhagen writes: > > The FSF doesn't actually require assignments for gnumach -- almost all > > of gnumach is foreign code without FSF copyright anyway... > > Thank you. I had assumed that the old Mach code wa

Re: gnumach copyright assignment

2016-09-22 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Olaf Buddenhagen writes: > The FSF doesn't actually require assignments for gnumach -- almost all > of gnumach is foreign code without FSF copyright anyway... Thank you. I had assumed that the old Mach code was grandfathered in, and that the FSF would require copyright assignments for any new a

gnumach copyright assignment (was: [bug #49056] sending mach_port_kernel_object to non-task object crashes mach)

2016-09-21 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:27:05PM +, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > If I understand > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant correctly, > the FSF does not want more than around 15 lines of code without a copyright > assignment. The FSF doesn't actually requi