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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
From: |
Philippe Vaucher |
Subject: |
Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 19 May 2020 07:28:30 +0200 |
> > It was done with Adobe Sign,
>
> I am not familiar with that, but if it comes from Adobe, I expect
> it is a nonfree program. Is that correct?
>
> Overall, I agree with Joao that the mechanics of signing is a
> secondary part of the issue. But we have to apply our general
> moral principles there.
>
> We consider nonfree programs an injustice.
> We cannot suggest using one of them -- it would conflict
> with our principles.
>
> Maybe there is free software to do this job.
> Would you like to check and see?
Please, I'm not suggesting to use Adobe Sign. It looks like you missed
my original message:
>It was done with Adobe Sign, basically it displayed a PDF to me in my
>browser and I could sign by writing on my keyboard (displayed using a
>"hand-written" font), draw with my mouse, or import an image of my
>signature (or even use my mobile device).
>I don't think we need that much options (just type on keyboard), but
>surely something similar is doable using only GNU tools no? If you can
>reduce the "print - sign - scan - email" cycle to "browse online and
>click" I suspect a lot more people would agree to bother with the
>copyright assignments.
Hope it clears up the confusion.
Philippe
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/20
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/20
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/26
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/26
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/26
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/18
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
Philippe Vaucher <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/31
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/17
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, T.V Raman, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, João Távora, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/08
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/09