From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:13:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb1e8467-1179-2307-24b8-d82b9e1d4c6e@gotplt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2619fea4-4fb4-84cf-b9d2-f1ef21d40bcb@gotplt.org>
On 6/25/21 2:27 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 6/25/21 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I don't see how the above means shared ownership. My interpretation
>> is that the developer owns the changes, and the FSF owns the changes
>> contributed to the project, but they each one own their separate copy
>> separately and independently. "Shared" means what one owner does
>> affects the other, whereas in this case the text of the assignment
>> explicitly says there's no such dependencies.
>
> Fair enough, I can redact 'shared' to align with your interpretation
> because we're otherwise talking about the same thing. It still doesn't
> change the crux of my point, that it is perfectly reasonable for someone
> to be picky about who they assign copyright to.
... actually I should correct myself based on Florian's comment. The
copyright ownership does get transferred to the assignee and the
assigner is granted back an unhindered, unlimited *use* license.
Siddhesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 1:04 Bruno Haible
2021-06-23 3:19 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-24 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 2:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 6:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 8:57 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 9:43 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2021-06-25 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:11 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 12:14 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:25 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 12:33 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 14:06 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-26 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 4:11 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-28 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 13:06 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-28 14:04 ` Phil Blundell
2021-06-28 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 12:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 7:24 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 8:23 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-07-02 22:23 Craig Topham
2021-07-05 14:59 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-07-05 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 18:52 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-14 18:52 Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-14 19:08 ` Rich Felker
2021-06-14 19:25 ` Khem Raj
2021-06-14 20:05 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-14 20:22 ` Matt Turner
2021-06-15 20:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-14 21:16 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-14 20:18 ` Matt Turner
2021-06-14 20:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-15 2:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-15 3:18 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 17:41 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 18:43 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 19:05 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 19:12 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 19:42 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 20:08 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-02 22:33 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-03 1:59 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 0:40 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 11:55 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-04 18:32 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 23:25 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-05 15:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-06 18:02 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-05 5:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-05 20:21 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-06 18:05 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-06 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <YOTTfm12jac/NYe5@ebb.org>
2021-07-07 8:51 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-07 15:01 ` Joseph Myers
2021-07-05 5:00 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-05 5:28 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-05 20:37 ` Joseph Myers
2021-07-03 3:24 ` Bruno Haible
2021-07-05 5:53 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-15 3:39 ` Daniel Black
2021-06-15 16:09 ` Josh Triplett
2021-06-16 13:01 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-06-16 14:08 ` Adam Sampson
2021-06-16 19:33 ` Joseph Myers
2021-06-16 19:45 ` Phil Blundell
2021-06-30 21:54 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-01 5:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-01 19:33 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-02 3:29 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-03 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-01 8:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2021-07-02 8:59 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30 22:21 ` Mark Wielaard
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