Alas, groff's requirement for copyright assignment to the FSF ruled
out contributions from me many years ago after the FSF's legal
counsel confirmed they'd hold partial copyright on a non-groff work
which contained code of copyrightable expression if I later used it
in groff; the order in time doesn't matter. The FSF want 100%
ownership to enforce copyright but deny 100% ownership of that
earlier work in doing so.
I do not get this.
Can you elaborate or provide an example?
Best regards,
Michał Kruszewski
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------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 at 2:26 PM, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi Michał,
>
> > Where do I need to register?
>
>
> For any significant contribution in copyright terms, you'll have to sign
> an assignment of copyright of your work to the FSF and it's GNU groff.
>
> https://www.fsf.org/licensing/contributor-faq
>
> That put me off.
>
> Alas, groff's requirement for copyright assignment to the FSF ruled
> out contributions from me many years ago after the FSF's legal
> counsel confirmed they'd hold partial copyright on a non-groff work
> which contained code of copyrightable expression if I later used it
> in groff; the order in time doesn't matter. The FSF want 100%
> ownership to enforce copyright but deny 100% ownership of that
> earlier work in doing so.
>
> — https://www.mail-archive.com/groff@gnu.org/msg15539.html
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
