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: Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83blmu9u57.fsf@gnu.org> <7c61a272-f4ba-fdfd-755b-1a720e8cc2df@gmail.com> <838shy9srs.fsf@gnu.org> <7f820b59-ebbc-18c7-9f08-104a7ba88dd2@gmail.com> <834kslao2y.fsf@gnu.org> <052569f9-0571-6471-7a27-f3d7b36497a0@gmail.com> <83sgg58ari.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxh847w.fsf@gnu.org> <834ksl833q.fsf@gnu.org> 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="123932"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, ndame@protonmail.com To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 06:07:44 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 1jYigH-000W5O-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 06:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYigG-000275-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYifg-0001IQ-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYifg-0001NO-DQ; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYifd-0007Xn-2Z; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Tue, 12 May 2020 15:48:01 -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:250089 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. ]]] > Currently, the way you answer such a question is that you look at > the commit, try to determine the author, and check a list of > people who have assigned copyright to see if the author is in it. > This process is cumbersome, because few have access to the list. > One way to make it smoother is to add an API that gives access to > that list. I would like to make that easier. That may be complex. We don't publish the list, for privacy reasons. We don't want to offer the public a way to probe the list. We can offer certain people access to probe the list in limited ways. We need to discuss that with the FSF. > Indeed, currently, when you assign copyright to the FSF, you sign > a document with a GPG key. The FSF could sign that key to > indicate "we have received copyright papers for this author". > Then, to verify "do we have papers for the author of this commit", > anyone could check "is this commit signed with a key signed by the > FSF"? At first glance, this looks good to me. It would be necessary for people to study it to make sure it doens't have problems. -- 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)