From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some question about code line count when sign GPL paper Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:02:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <302331ef.4d5.177adc7caae.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10901"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tumashu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 07:06:35 2021 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 1lCcSQ-0002ib-US for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40236 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCcSP-0000Jx-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:06:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCcOa-0004JS-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:02:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCcOZ-0000Iq-RK; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lCcOY-0005BR-P3; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:02:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <302331ef.4d5.177adc7caae.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> (message from tumashu on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:18:07 +0800 (CST)) 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:265127 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. ]]] >     (print "test2")))  ;; the only different line from test1 > should I count this countribution 7 lines or 1 line? The changes are limited to one line, but the change in that line is trivial. Perhaps it should count as 0.1 line. There is no hard and fast rule here. Ten lines of complex code are much more significant than ten lines of trivial changes like that. I'm trying to give a simple rule that approximates a judgment call. There is no obvious correct way to do it. -- 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)