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: magit copyright assignments Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:15:49 +0300 Message-ID: <86wmljffga.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bk31mgue.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86frsdjm20.fsf@gnu.org> <87v815j30v.fsf@metapensiero.it> <867cdliq8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87ikx5s12c.fsf@metapensiero.it> <86le21gpog.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38357"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: lele@metapensiero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 07:16:58 2024 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 1sUJVh-0009k5-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:16:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUJUx-0001rk-1I; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUJUk-0001qy-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUJUj-0001e1-6o; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:15:57 -0400 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=2IN5LUzcHpi/MsaxTvk4do+t0lS7MgjPug+CgDe2amc=; b=AredYD7JCNQ7 CAitpYyTJhj0j4l2ONXSDKoLfKVHE3FZ2wP0yRLa3YUrC7ubXdZT5Qh16E/8YhmbHh1RoXAPMQh4H 1vBXptcC1jzvv58tEjc87COHtpv3PstWbxGF0M8Y4ogNd30OCu6qlCY94Rudkmp3bVkKRQq38hrsX mlfRO9EHOWAbsVRT1WhGGZhQ9kSPaSAqmeuQ4hXGCh6eY966FjWQh2yd6uDHhLUoCXM59sjKVU1sn EksPoX0ajRJL85fM5Hh+h7dGNtEzwB1bxp5/2hJyVijSK2l9DTmplZNhrgvzHmMcGu1IMaF6uCN3Z +zkHl8hZ1aJKqfzE4eYsvg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321775 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: lele@metapensiero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400 > > > > It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed > > > 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it > > > slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git > > > annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone > > > else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright > > > assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code, > > > and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I? > > Lele is right -- so it seems that `git annotate' is not the right way > to count someone's contribution. > > > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of > > that was deleted? > > In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers. Which means "git annotate" actually _is_ the right way, at least part of it. The question is where to start and how to converge between these two. > I think it will not be terribly hard to checl by hand for this > rare situation. I don't know how to test that by hand.