Hi Artur, I am interested in the "git details". Please elaborate.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
wrote:

> If that package is only used for testing, you can also just not merge
> it into elpa and do your testing elsewhere (e.g. Travis+github).
> That's what I did with Names, because the tests involved a lot of
> packages from other people with a ton of changes made by me. I'm not
> saying I couldn't put those inside the Elpa/package/ directory, but it
> was easier this way than to worry about copyrights.
>
> I can go into the `git' details necessary for this if you'd like.
>
> 2015-02-03 5:57 GMT+00:00 Jackson Hamilton <jackson@jacksonrayhamilton.com
> >:
> > On the "Copyright (C) 2014 Johan Andersson", are you suggesting I change
> the
> > copyright notice in ert-async.el myself, or that I should contact the
> author
> > and tell him to change it?
> >
> > In either case that seems inappropriate.
> >
> > context-coloring/languages/javascript/libraries/ also includes 3
> JavaScript
> > libraries with their own copyright notices. These appear to be licensed
> > under the FreeBSD license. Should they be handled specially?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jackson
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > which included 247 commits. I am not sure if these should be squashed,
> >> > but
> >> > based on the commit log it seems like this subtree approach is how
> other
> >> > people are managing their externally-maintained packages, so I assume
> it
> >> > is
> >> > okay to add the whole history.
> >>
> >> Indeed, it's OK to keep the history.
> >>
> >> > On top of that, I added 2 patches so that I could test ELPA locally. I
> >> > was
> >> > able to install my package via a "local-elpa" as described in the
> >> > README.
> >> > The patches for that are attached in this email.
> >>
> >> I think the hydra-test.el has been fixed by someone else in the
> >> mean time.  As for your change:
> >>
> >> > +./context-coloring/libraries/ert-async.el:;; Copyright (C) 2014 Johan
> >> > Andersson
> >>
> >> I think this change is incorrect.  IIUC this is johan.rejeep@gmail.com
> >> we're talking bout, and he signed the copyright assignment forms, so
> >> the line in ert-async.el should say "Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software
> >> Foundation, Inc" (at which point you won't need any change to
> >> copyright_exceptions).
> >>
> >>
> >>         Stefan
> >
> >
>