Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy

2022-10-06 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Jean Abou Samra writes: > When I did this copyright assignment for Emacs, I recall > that the procedure was a bit demotivating (the person > was very friendly, but when you live in an isolated area > and don't have a printer and you must print the document > to sign it ...). It also sounds good

Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy

2022-10-06 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Ludovic and Andy, Great news! Thanks for lowering the barrier to entry for new contributors! - Dave

Re: Relaxing the copyright assignment policy

2022-10-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 06/10/2022 à 22:18, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : Hello Guilers! Until now, we required copyright for “legally significant¹” contributions to Guile to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This requirement did not exist for code not initially written for Guile—e.g., (ice-9 match)

Relaxing the copyright assignment policy

2022-10-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guilers! Until now, we required copyright for “legally significant¹” contributions to Guile to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This requirement did not exist for code not initially written for Guile—e.g., (ice-9 match), sxml-match, etc. The purported advantage of copyrig