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: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:59:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0gw7jiv.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14632"; 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 Thu Nov 25 09:11:28 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 1mq9qp-0003bW-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43302 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mq9qn-0005yN-US for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mq9fa-00086s-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=59930 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 1mq9fZ-0007El-Sr; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:59:49 -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=veTH1I73ND3kifJnyu6BrhJSziB1sg/4fwjWxDBIdYQ=; b=fJcIFlMZX+4H BX68Lol07RDRVI2cL4qbz/btLNaFrZJNbZktWQ9zhyAEy3kYgM+1GGUP4fS/mADHf+TrZkLHm3t5c VXTZ29xenX+ATIww2UodjuqXvWOvsxFu5E3a1Sl1nzzxUtMbsWLeaCgRUyH8lUkJzZJdIkchC1xeD fRGrfmnGuX0+hbXKI/lyU0kY5PwwE+wJE4mRf5TEfpP/lNR0uBhPKq2Svmp4KfrfIPAfREsTQM4ku uLAkI9XiwXvMsR0qhXKTGYbWBkpOWBKhL2CBngnAjx+EwDXd6b62DCRgMbHhDZ/4MgVfzZQ3cQI4G Wj1tTRsoXnTl7xkTNaDjyA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1610 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 1mq9fM-0004V6-6U; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:59:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:31:22 -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:280072 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:31:22 -0500 > > > > > You should always commit with --author set to the author's name. The > > > > attribution should be as accurate as possible, regardless of whether > > > > the contribution is legally significant. > > Perhaps we should send a message about this point > to each person with commit access. Our committers would more > reliably do it, with this reminder. That is unlikely to have any effect, down the way. People easily forget this stuff. And the list of people with commit access is very long. The message I posted to emacs-devel, which you quote, is likely to have the same or better effect, because everyone who is actively involved reads it. We have this spelled out in CONTRIBUTE already: ** Committing changes by others If committing changes written by someone else, commit in their name, not yours. You can use 'git commit --author="AUTHOR"' to specify a change's author.