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: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:32:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6hnwsab.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> <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39492"; 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 Mon Nov 29 04:54:34 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 1mrXkP-000A6Z-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:54:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrXkO-0002AE-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrXOy-0000UA-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=54942 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 1mrXOy-0003mn-5V; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:32:24 -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=jV0EZTwL0LH5kYYsLg2sztnHliV/k25oeUN0w5cO3vQ=; b=rM7YJ41McPQZ +9hJomU36wwTDA/RiVkSBhk/3J89QvJy09nx0JWRbEDOMoRW2/p8U5pbXk2gnoJIM003TrX9mns+9 PL6R78IvjXA4ltoEMNxL4SJHEcwDmRaopXK3Cff96gr7nnAy/RpgV6fROFxVVB6Hk02BoaLGA1GI8 pJW6y+wPrabuxkr5vWtLdkU3vXDcihRV/CIXyOTW+eN1IK11gc4tqxCRv3MXhpLYDI37jOcUNiwWD 1dyNTy4odQx0rt18OUcu1Bu3QkMi/p4JUVXTuA6Py+7EyeEtlk5bfX4idT3fOZnJf18gJthIcdT9L iph/fJYNclgPQN71mnIz1Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3483 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 1mrXOq-00062s-Sc; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:32:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -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:280450 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500 > > > 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. > > I see your point. > > But will git catch an _omitted_ author specification? No, of course not. It assumes by default that the committer is the author. > Maybe we should remind people to specify that. We already do, in CONTRIBUTE.