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: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:17:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0gyohy4.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 19:17:43 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 1mpaMQ-0002Qz-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:17:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37290 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpaMO-0000nQ-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpaLi-00006O-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57416 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 1mpaLi-0001tN-0G; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:16:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=/DYko33kQiMlE26ddtiqCZC9YpdPVpkABtY9puzpG1A=; b=YgQtHhoUIbbKM8ihKrMF tadgUzrCtTDxE3dYTE8JnfLbmM4aX76mHkbg4JEP0duavTJEnT0PTA1lWkNb0r8nTFtQzvZaDDQC3 EQCWOgO5QOyPrxXOuO/6UvJhfRjzykBu0KCNZeb4nM2p0L6iijCLfCAbVKJaiaOHTCuH/TOEDND+z ndf5BeAdmkWQIV273T5asL4foGT7VgTYjeZLBwfme82T2lzhaFxDP8SsETkY0TFWaKtxfEfapOctk zry9LC3fePCiUeRfkqrAM9Urg7YNDXkWciNTcohvancPH2gkEB2a/36A4Oyb+K+BJCL3gDE04yXtI MNhGKPfKKIFvjA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2126 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 1mpaLg-0006Cq-Ch; Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:16:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h7c2pxzr.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:45:12 +0100) 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:279964 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:45:12 +0100 > > > 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. > > Ok, we did not do that in the past, most likely because we were careless > and also we could not imagine that one day mathwork would renounce its > copyright. > > The question is should I «rewrite» the repository changing commits and > trying to add the name of the authors before it will, hopefully one day > enter ELPA? I wouldn't recommend that. If the real authors are mentioned in the commit log messages, it's enough, I think.