From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright verification service Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:59:05 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87tuzve0g6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tv04fnt9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="1176"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 01 08:59:54 2020 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 1jfeQM-0000Ay-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfeQL-0003JE-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfePh-0002t1-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:59:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfePh-0008Kd-6P; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:59:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-32-82-254-31-120.adsl.proxad.net ([82.254.31.120]:45002 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jfePc-0000yX-Rt; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07FF71A603C1; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 08:59:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel"'s message of "Mon, 25 May 2020 20:29:10 -0400") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:251712 Archived-At: Hi Cl=C3=A9ment, Cl=C3=A9ment Pit-Claudel writes: > On 25/05/2020 03.58, Bastien wrote: >> Hi Tim, >>=20 >> I've toyed with this idea myself for a while. >>=20 >> I don't know if it is a good idea for the GNU project in general, but >> as someone who sometimes need to check the copyright status of some >> contributors for Org/Emacs, the current setup is fine for me. >>=20 >> Although, I don't think authentication would be optional as we should >> by default assume that the list of signed contributors should be kept >> private, shouldn't we? > > The API idea was discussed in depth two weeks ago, as part of the very > long thread on packages not getting included in ELPA; see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01909.html. Thanks for the pointer. > The conclusion was that email addresses are not private, since they > appear in commits anyway.=20=20 Well, privacy is about the *link* between an email and a person. If I am using an address like batman@pm.me for my contributions (i.e. for both the emails I send to a mailing list and for my patches), then only those who can access the copyright list know I am Bruce Wayne and I trust them not to disclose this information publicly. So the question seems rather: shall the FSF preserve the possibility for someone to consider his copyright assignment as private info? I think the FSF should let contributors decide whether they want their assignment to be public or not. > rms said he would talk to the FSF sysadmins to see if something was > feasible. OK, thanks. --=20 Bastien