From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de (mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de [85.215.255.22]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6E82383B837 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2021 03:24:18 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org B6E82383B837 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=clisp.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=clisp.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1625282655; s=strato-dkim-0002; d=clisp.org; h=References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From:Cc:Date: From:Subject:Sender; bh=rPB0FOAH3+dBrhkWM0Rl3Z/Sw8TVk0N/tnBk+hTf4BU=; b=AGLZuHL1gOJwcyejcgmfRaAKJJIacHbKrIMfoHS8D+cJ02jN8PAQ6qGH0q2ttRY1Mr Pc89qb/A6gRP5F020lAphF/DGTm4Y6Sap73NFU/ZGvyOIchZ5KNknb0OX2ZPoCiCBm0v w+vMx1T5NMntJm3lplNAppUijbUFUoVKnGdTHU6UPZCY+HNvfjnVyednEIuFNEgXq89Y 3P5llBx77+7ls+bHJ1WufC1K807hfmLizQ6RKs/yyHlvltRFEW+j+WVX8X0WDSeoeBKk W3v9884LntE1iJC7HgR2Q/C6MJ+beB/bnjTNjs0QedizFR+0/YaQOkTBkHmncBM9TvDo SZfg== Authentication-Results: strato.com; dkim=none X-RZG-AUTH: ":Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brlshOcZlIWs+iCP5vnk6shH+AHjwLuWOGKf9yfs=" X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from bruno.haible.de by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 47.28.1 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id e088a2x633OEFXo (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (curve X9_62_prime256v1 with 256 ECDH bits, eq. 3072 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate); Sat, 3 Jul 2021 05:24:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Bruno Haible To: Carlos O'Donell Cc: Paul Eggert , DJ Delorie , "Dmitry V. Levin" , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:24:13 +0200 Message-ID: <17863403.P4NDpsXYhb@omega> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-210-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1b2ac4c8-0bbf-b7a7-8b05-03d5a71d46f4@cs.ucla.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2021 03:24:20 -0000 Carlos O'Donell wrote: > gnulib already accepts such code. > > gnulib has been including non-FSF copyrighted material in various > modules (that include the files below) for a long time. Yes. But the article "Our need for copyright papers has not gone away" by Richard Stallman explains, among other things, that it makes a big difference whether a small part or a large part of the package is not covered by copyright assignments. In the case of Gnulib so far, it's less than 2% of the code. That's a small part of Gnulib. It would be much, much worse if a *large* part of Gnulib was not covered by copyright assignments. Similarly, Bradley Kuhn [1] reminded to think about the *long term* mix of copyright holders. Bruno [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-June/128303.html