Re: Copyright verification service

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 10:30, Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 25/05/2020 03.58, Bastien wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I've toyed with this idea myself for a while.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> The conclusion was that email addresses are not private, since they appear
> in commits anyway.   rms said he would talk to the FSF sysadmins to see if
> something was feasible.
>
> OK, thanks for the info. It i hard to keep on top of all the threads about
> ELPA at the moment.



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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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