Re: XEmacs copyright
SL Baur writes:
I'll defer to you on that then. However, unless things have
changed
recently (have they?, copyright notices in mule files are still what
they were when I was working with ETL), has the Emperor decreed
that he will permit copyright change on that code? When I asked
Tomura-san in 1999 for permission to FSF copyright assign, I was told
it would be difficult.
The Emperor has nothing to do with it, you know that much, I'm sure.
The problem is the Ministry of Redistribution of National Wealth from
Hardworking Taxpayers to Nonproductive Retired Bureaucrats and
Functionally Useless Professors (aka the Ministry of Finance), which
effectively controls all national property.
As I understand it, the author and his employer have *joint* copyright
unless there is some agreement to the contrary, and ETL is depending
on that to give the FSF an exclusive license to recent versions of
Mule, effectively transferring control.
How effective "effective" is, I'm not sure, especially as I haven't
seen the contract. But it was good enough for RMS and the FSF legal
staff.
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