From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: xr Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:21:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <831s4lsz89.fsf@gnu.org> <834l9fsm0h.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="77469"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 08 04:21:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1grwjh-000Jzz-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 04:21:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grwjg-0001d9-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grwj2-0001d3-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grwj1-0000aH-Uv; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1grwj1-0005ks-Kn; Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:21:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <834l9fsm0h.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:37:02 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233100 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. ]]] > > Is the assignment for "changes to Emacs"? If so, he should send a > > message saying that this file constitutes a change to Emacs, and then > > please send that message to assign@gnu.org. > Sorry, I don't understand. We don't have separate assignments for > ELPA, we have always treated packages on ELPA as being part of Emacs, > for the copyright assignment purposes. Is that incorrect for some > reason? That is correct, but it's a different issue. The point is when someone contributes changes to Emacs which consist of a separate module -- so that it isn't clearly "a change to Emacs" -- we should ask per to affirm explicitly that it _is_ a change to Emacs, and therefore his assignment covers it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)