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: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.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="10203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akira Kyle Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:32:56 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 1n39b6-0002Qx-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:32:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58692 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39b5-0002Ok-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39VR-0001L5-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38892 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 1n39VR-00007W-4p; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:05 -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=41LrdNjToS7k3mXHIQ+QrD8ShE9gdYlGDI66aHNuXfs=; b=EJaRhEZWdPfP wHs5maYEYUk+21dBxKqA54QfqHH3fktykxJPIFawq5SG62KlZ07XnCYDDuQYujhpIo3g5WtXa4oj0 tg9WOI8Wpabt+E+m20wwILBX88/MhT+IjP2akhW2xtV3qizSOVyXdaqgDDFkyAfva7A2SwIfv2SPj 59LQKWh4WgaYSpsrrIfkNVXeXn0DQmuNKlRCD5btJgYkRZq721flATqryObp+81v+uXqTsX+IBVxU S7Z5UKWyqSQcxJ3MzZeNzqNBhUyzx9AQEe7EYrBZbxK0D7W94ymiHewdHk1YSwEIQxdPqrRB1hcMN 2O3PfCY8tentXZFcgzmB5A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39VR-0005sA-6B; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Akira Kyle on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:40:59 -0700) 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:283709 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. ]]] > I wish this process was more transparent than "send an email to > assign@gnu.org and wait for a response". Why can't there be some > webpage that outlines the process along with the necessary forms that > I can follow and collect then send to assign@gnu.org? The instructions are complex, and depend on circumstances. We can send them to a contributor who wants to know all the options we can handle; but having each contributor figure out what to do would be a lot more work for each, and would be unreliable. So the easy way is to let the FSF staff ask the contributor for the pertinent facts, then recommend what papers to use. It is faster and less work for the contributor, and less likely to lead to errors. Please do not try to figure out on your own how to do that -- discuss it with the staff. Just in case this might have changed in the past few years, I asked the staff to verify it still works that way. > Such resources exist but I, as a relatively > uninformed newcomer to such issues, have to find them myself, You don't need those resources to submit FSF copyright papers. I will look at the page you mentioned, but I doubt that SFC is trying to explain how to do 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)