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: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y25eq1o6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83r1b6om8i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtluq046.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83o86aokoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7c2pxzr.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83k0gyohy4.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0gw7jiv.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgpsk6g7.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83h7c07j8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilwe15oo.fsf@gnu.org> <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> 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="15257"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 29 04:05:35 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 1mrWz1-0003np-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:05:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47966 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrWz0-0002CI-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrWvi-0006BP-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=53974 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrWvg-00082A-WF; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:09 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=/Qp3jtmMF6RPsY8+l0QGhl1FNE0TyQai9bQtJEh1364=; b=lnKpZzLuPYF0 +zkn4EVrchm4yWm/8rHsmG7T7atFm2lJRCzDqsee2yZkbkPVUiqVCj9e/S40sPeL3Z5ZAfCVJ/97i 9Mvj6hfa+cctL8yKuBHTgwCs0LoG1/7FC+5o8lmQnSKmRaQ3t/zGle86YqCpHfzyTjUndoFbIZPuk 6hgLkwHVbuco4nEEQKjLZJuU3HiHhKPY0t5qJPbHclbRKR+VCMeVgQwS7ca3bXl0DRHMjwayyS+BU CierJnJ1uRqsriVU9hV/dv/agijPyBtgFjEy8LaE+QpoIO6MKQDUuZ/t4ri2UdqqIpF2Kc0cdCVlj 7B0rtbSX/dSnX6slFil3bg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrWvg-0002Ew-VI; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:09:45 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:280449 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. ]]] > Yes, it's a judgment call. In this case, given the probability that > Git itself will catch incorrectly formatted author identification, I > see no reason to have this in our docs. I see your point. But will git catch an _omitted_ author specification? Maybe we should remind people to specify that. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)