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: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -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> <83a6hnwsab.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="23905"; 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 Tue Nov 30 05:12:36 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 1mruVQ-00063n-02 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:12:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruVO-0006iF-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruSw-00047Z-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48020 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 1mruSu-0004cl-KR; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -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=JcvzdRnNMruXzHa6hLl24O8YT7E5zsp5+bl3Ybc3kAk=; b=ac7I+JfgvepC 9C1iHJuxw6U9DWU03WVRkxAHAaTtoC6d2+VF6wMhx3Nzr4YSDGXirX1ONmpEpGSLhmW7tb1ErSU5f 2cie6H7WUEZhw48EXp19wr3vw+pZwbnKVI+eVGafxCyIDujDdtNd1vIB/1hth6GDYpA4iU0FH5S6g SRFv3KCsyvBnixVpt9Op41ZAplmiYzcFR/Q1AmdonJPN73uQi+a6guIcp6zwyZ/4xwn6K1iQl9JQx XbUO15spScrwYg7gmRKKKicMTbYRI0z/aa2PSKt3VF5E9QPBiH5BUYinaUwXihavJLECI7Qg7ZyhT YT3CMvdiILqu/wqk0v6pXA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruSu-0002JW-JA; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83a6hnwsab.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:32:28 +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:280521 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. ]]] > > But will git catch an _omitted_ author specification? > No, of course not. It assumes by default that the committer is the > author. > > Maybe we should remind people to specify that. > We already do, in CONTRIBUTE. Yes, but as we've noticed, people don't look at that very often. A person who has contributed for a year, and checked in only per own work, and then for the first time checks in someone else's work, is very likely to forget about --author. I'm wondering if we can do something to make that sort of mistake less likely. -- 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)