Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[João Távora]

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:17 PM Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    I don't resist asking: does relinquishing copyright of a work to
>    the "Free Software Foundation" a "nonprofit with a worldwide
>    mission to promote computer user freedom" really say nothing
>    about what values one wishes to endorse?
>
> Those are the values the FSF promotes, not the person assigning their
> copyright to the FSF.  They also do not "relinquishing" their rights;
> after signing a copyright assignment you still can use the code you
> wrote as you see fit, even license it under a non-free license.

I'm not a lawyer.  It would seem from my layman's standpoint that
I performed a voluntary action that helped some other entity in
the world.  I could have chosen not to, but I didn't, and that matters.

João

PS: it also says the FSF owes me a dollar! Where is it? :-)