Re: FSF assignment policy

Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Andreas Roehler: My experience and understanding of implementation of the FSF assignment policy is that it’s fairly reasonable, at least as reasonable as it’s possible to be; this is not to say that I agree with most of the motives that drive it. But there’s a reasonably low number of lines of code that require an assignment; they ask you to update them with details of your new employers; and, while yes, there are normally many, many others who inspire a given file or function, this is equally true of most code written for corporations, and Intel does not pay Tony Hoare royalties every time it uses quicksort. Sebastian Freundt has a good argument that assignment on the FSF model is not legally possible in the Bundesrepublik (if I remember things correctly); I do not remember the details myself right now (though following his thinking I certainly did contravene the FSF assignment policy for three years or so, living in Germany and submitting patches from there) and he is ridiculously busy, so he *might* get back to you and explain the details of his understanding, but probably not. Nonetheless, lots of people resident in Germany do sign FSF assignment forms. -- ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghe, que tuvo que huir precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes? _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta