From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:50:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tv0ra9uk.wl-lukeshu@lukeshu.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="121682"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Luke Shumaker Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 05:51:54 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGWn-000VXr-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 05:51:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGWm-0000gZ-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGVv-0008KJ-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:50:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGVu-0002IJ-NG; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGVt-0004ZA-SH; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:50:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tv0ra9uk.wl-lukeshu@lukeshu.com> (message from Luke Shumaker on Thu, 07 May 2020 14:17:07 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249349 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. ]]] > FWIW, several free software projects that I've contributed to (and > require copyright assignment or other licensing paperwork) handle this > by requiring that each commit message have a specially formatted line > in it: > Signed-off-by: Full Name If that works well in practice, we could adopt it. I don't see any problem on first glance, -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)