From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:09:45 +0200 Message-ID: <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y25eq1o6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83r1b6om8i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtluq046.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83o86aokoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7c2pxzr.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83k0gyohy4.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0gw7jiv.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgpsk6g7.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83h7c07j8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilwe15oo.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 28 09:11:08 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrFH9-00021I-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 09:11:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrFH8-0002Fs-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrFFq-0001Z5-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=55394 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrFFq-0008Bj-C0; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:09:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=TaOup6f3oGAfNxJKnnMK4NPqqxWglRCTl5yqIgXcst0=; b=jqi6w5JQHF9j pNW2qNcCnwr/IQRdY9ldTqYRTpK12+VXIZ5PIVKDYe/L55gf9E5ZwfAUrsW6hBd7TskEFq1EfeR3p +U+JV+0IM8vbmp1f+8VjyIRr9H8KPu2NrsbspcGQLjTrIBbt5W6NkGft3HZ6SLc+FK5YnWuEzAp0D S6UkFV3JMghxsQ9pukQpmD1SbFyNx5YIuqaRyUoH8ooEI1I01FE58og9HHpvY0vQlA6Z+ClrMt/CM M2aEe1Td81XD/o064pw4xt63ZZq6I7bU8AZpLlRacXItW+BX8fRosNrYo16NWEolqdt2LUxDi1a7K hXwRlQO3KmJVFBXlXVM85w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2697 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrFFg-0005GM-Lq; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:09:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:24:52 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280383 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > 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.