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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:09:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mrBkC-0000UW-1P@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:24:52 -0500)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:24:52 -0500
> 
>   >   I object to making our
>   > documentation a Git tutorial.  Once again, people with write access to
>   > the repository are expected to know how to use Git.
> 
> There is no moral aspect in these questions, so they are purely
> pragmatic -- what works best for us?
> 
> For instance, when should we presume everyone knows the right way to
> do something with git, and when should we explain?  That depends on
> how much of a problem results when someone doesn't know.

Yes, it's a judgment call.  In this case, given the probability that
Git itself will catch incorrectly formatted author identification, I
see no reason to have this in our docs.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-28  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-23 16:25 copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 16:59   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 17:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 17:45       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 18:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  5:31           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  7:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  8:03               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-25  8:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27  4:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-27  6:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-28  4:24                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  8:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-29  3:02                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-30  4:10                               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30 16:45                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01  7:05                                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  8:14               ` Po Lu
2021-11-25  8:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  9:19                   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 19:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  8:06           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 20:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  8:00           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-24 13:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  4:28         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  7:42           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-27  3:24             ` Eric Ludlam
2021-11-28  4:20               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  9:16               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 20:00     ` Tassilo Horn
2021-11-24  4:31   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  7:40     ` Uwe Brauer

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