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Re:Emacs and Magit by tangue on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:11AM (#14819732)
That's true but it's only the technical and logistical part of the problem.

There's a moral issue too in giving-up copyright to an entity : What if the future the FSF (RMS is not eternal) changes its policy to turn to something completely crazy with your code ? They will own all will own all your copyright-assigned code and you won't be able to do anything about it.

I mean : what if you were agree with GPL2 but not 3 and that now the copyright owner decides to move the code you've written to GPL3 ?

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Re:Emacs and Magit by davexunit on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:35AM (#14820381)
>What if the future the FSF (RMS is not eternal) changes its policy to turn to something completely crazy with your code ?

The FSF's copyright assignment contract has clauses that prevent them from doing such things. It's really a very fair contract.

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Re:Emacs and Magit by mikegerwitz on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:38AM (#14820413)
To elaborate: the clause is actually designed precisely to prevent a hostile takeover from another entity; it's an important part of the contract. The clause states the conditions under which your code and program will be made available.
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Re:Emacs and Magit by tangue on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:32AM (#14837011)
Ok this seems more reasonnable than I thought.
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