Re: Copyright verification service

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 00:37, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:02:26 +1000
> > Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > My idea is that the list does stay private. You cannot see/retrieve the
> list. All you can do is submit an email
> > address and it will come back with either yes or no (ture/false etc)..
> You wold need to know the email
> > address before you can check copyright status.
>
> Richard is working with the FSF stuff on this, but AFAIU the response
> cannot be a binary YES/NO result, it must be able to return a 3rd
> value, meaning "human investigation is required".  I don't know if you
> ever saw the copyright list, but some entries there are not very
> trivial for a program to process, since they include various
> conditions that are written in free-text format which would not be
> simple for a program to parse and apply.
>

That wouldn't be an issue - you can easily define the semantics to whatever
is needed. It may also be necessary to transform/normalize the source data
and you could even set things up so that if a manual check needs to be made
for a particular email address, once that check has been performed, add
that email address with the appropriate value so that it doesn't need to be
done again. The first object here is to make the processes easier and a
good example of the 80/20 rule.
-- 
regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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