From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426193253 23146 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 20:47:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Zack Piper Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 21:47:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0p-00055q-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:47:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0o-000314-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0a-00030u-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0a-00076W-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0Z-00076Q-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWA0Z-0002Zz-7g; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:47:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> (message from Zack Piper on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:12:14 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183831 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'm curious as to what GNU (and Emacs developers) feel about a 14 > year old (such as my self) being able to contribute to the Emacs > project. If you write good contributions, we will accept them gratefully. > - Is there an age limit? No, but I think we will need your parent's signature on the copyright papers. > - Is it possible for somebody in the UK to sign FSF papers electronically. I think not. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.