Am 13.03.2013 11:50, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
Dar all,in the light of the recent dispute, I have now added the paragraph below to http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-2 to clarify the copyright implications of submitting contributions to org-mode. I hope this helps to avoid problems in the future. Regards - Carsten By submitting patches to [email protected], or by pushing changes to the Org-mode repository, you are placing these changes under GPL version 3, with all the implications that has. If at the time you submit or push these changes you have active copyright assignment papers with the FSF, for future changes to either Org-mode or to Emacs, this means that copyright to these changes is automatically transferred to the FSF. The Org-mode repository is seen as upstream repository for Emacs, anything contained in it can potentially end up in Emacs. If you do not have signed papers with the FSF, only changes to files in the contrib/ part of the repository will be accepted, as well as very minor changes (so-called /tiny changes/) to core files. You will be asked to sign FSF papers at the moment we attempt to move a contrib/ file into the Org core, or into Emacs.
Hi Carsten, above in this document it's told "For this you need to complete this form, send it to [email protected], and tell the Org-mode maintainer when this process is complete." Would consider it fair to read after second commata something like "whereof you will receive the copyright-assignement contract. Tell ..." The assignment contract is very different from the disclaimer visible so far. Best, Andreas
