On 2023-04-24, at 08:26, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes: > >>> Patches welcome! >> >> Would gladly do. Has the copyright papers requirement been lifted? > > Of course not, but don't you already have copyright assignment done? > Our records list you as someone with copyright: > https://orgmode.org/worg/contributors.html Complicated. I did my copyright assignment (for Emacs and AUCTeX, but I guess this doesn't matter, since Org mode is part of Emacs anyway) back when I worked in academia as a mathematician. Now I am a professional programmer, so I stopped contributing to Emacs - I suspect I would need to sign a different form. Also, my employer probably should do the same. And I assume that FSF might want to look at my contract, which is in Polish, so someone would have to pay for the translation, too. Quite a lot of hurdles for relatively little gain. And don't even mention what I think about that requirement in particular, and in general about copyright law, American law and American copyright law... I certainly don't want to sound like a jerk, but I think I do not owe anything to Emacs. While Emacs is an important part of my life - and it does make my life significantly better - I do my best to give back to the Emacs community. I wrote 300+ Emacs-related posts on my blog, more are in the pipeline, I wrote an Elisp textbook (not free, but that is intentional - I do not consider GPL nor the "free as in freedom" approach to be necessarily a good idea for a textbook), I encourage people to use Emacs (sometimes successfully). To be clear - I completely understand the "patches welcome" attitude to people complaining that something doesn't work as they expect - especially if those people are knowledgeable enough to fix the issue themselves. I would very probably have done that several weeks ago if not for the copyright papers requirement. If you think this is a good idea, I may spend some time preparing a detailed bug report, but please don't count on me submitting patches. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl
