---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Donald R Robertson III via RT <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:43 PM Subject: [gnu.org #393190] Dear FSF clerk, here are all my questions about copyright assigment To: [email protected] Hello, Thanks again for your interest. Sorry about the delay, your previous reply some how slipped past me. I can't really recommend any particular course of action in how to put your work in the public domain. In any event, even if all the contributors place their work in the public domain, we would still need at least a disclaimer from each of them if the project were to become a part of emacs. So I'm not sure how much time it would actually save to have them do that instead of just assigning their work when the time comes. Thanks again for your interest, and good luck with your project.

[[email protected] - Sun Jan 25 13:44:44 2009]:

Hi Mr. Robertson,

I still didn't get a reply yet, so I am resending my message to you.

Hi Mr. Robertson,

No, I have not applied to get either of the two works into Emacs yet. I and others agree it that Vimpulse is too buggy to get into Emacs yet. And I don't care enough about viper-in-more-modes to try to get it into Emacs. But I want to make sure the projects can easily get into Emacs when needed. So I think I will get all the contributors to release their contributions to the public domain. I will probably do so by asking them to go through the clickthrough public domain dedication process at http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2 and then forward the email receipt they get to the bug tracker. Do you think that is a good and safe method for people to dedicate work to the public domain, that will work no matter what country they come from (e.g. Canada, Italy, China)?

If you reply, please make sure to Reply to All.

-Jason