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: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:01:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.org> <83y242ip0a.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="25202"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, akira@akirakyle.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rudolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?Adamkovi=C4=8D?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 08:07:50 2022 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 1n3uy5-0006Mo-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 08:07:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40562 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3uy3-0003C1-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3usV-0000Yj-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50734 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 1n3usU-0006qK-RN; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:02:02 -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=ABTsm6W2ZaMQOEaDOlM4JjNsrv5YJP7/bYKMZmegxw0=; b=kg+v90npi3QA tNhcIzQQlFptdF0pXMZTYzSc7pU3aiskrImOls5F4OPQ7BZKf68gpB73C+Ik7SJBvZSPB7DDDnaTU tXmm7w8QqE3r7Zfk0b1X/F6cRajcWP975sdocRg7/X63nNSYLptFt1egd+HRPJIUNNyE89fo6m9yI eIkG2GYDwfDd5Vk663j2F52QUnUWZPqCPam1SGy7Pe9B3o+CJWPzS9BlC3ma3I3sy5IbPxt3AxCWh 6lOODZJ1jn6EHNSfYKbWqqifjxkl2ERj5zF7cpddiAMki7rhQCOBzJY6yGoL1954j0pzZFWbrbcZD KovDavlt8zlfkz0i2fASpQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3usM-0000W3-LB; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:01:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Rudolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?A?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?damkovi=C4=8D?= on Sat, 01 Jan 2022 21:42:46 +0100) 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:283857 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. ]]] > Random idea: Perhaps Emacs could provide a user-friendly command, say > "request-copyright-assignment". It would explain the need for the > assignments, gather the necessary information from the user, validate > the input, and then send the request to the correct person at FSF. If it is mean to be equivalent to filling in the usual form and eailing that to the FSF, this would be easy and I think there's no reason not to do it. Would people find it helpful? -- 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)