From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco Potorti` Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing patches without getting legal papers. Date: 29 Oct 2002 18:19:55 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzup40xw.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> References: <5xfzuqqj3f.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035913106 17740 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 17:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186a60-0003ho-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:24:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186aAi-00020n-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:28:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186a3R-0003dS-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186a2A-00031O-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186a25-000302-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from pot.cnuce.cnr.it ([146.48.83.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186a24-0002zV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:01 -0500 Original-Received: from pot by pot.cnuce.cnr.it with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 186a20-0003Ut-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:19:56 +0100 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: <5xfzuqqj3f.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.92 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8918 > Some time ago, RMS recommanded to me that when installing _small_ > patches received from "external sources" without proper legal papers, > those changes should be marked with "(tiny change)" in the ChangeLog > [in case you want to attribute the change to the person who submitted > the patch]. Maintain.texi needs to be amended to that effect. Currently it says: ================================================================ @section Acknowledgements @cindex acknowledgements Be careful to be clear when giving credit to people that gave good ideas, or made important bug reports, or made contributions of less than 15 lines of original code overall. Do not cite people names in change log files unless they made an important contributions and we have papers for them (@pxref{Copyright Papers}). If this is the case, it is better to have their name as the change log entry author.