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 02:02:04 -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="13143"; 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 Sun Jan 02 08:14:28 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 1n3v4V-0003Go-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 08:14:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46008 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3v4U-00073z-HC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:14:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3usX-0000bg-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:02:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50738 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 1n3usW-0006qf-Q2; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:02:04 -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=dNuMptiUrr8sQqoOTTT1B2p7Gm0aVvpRYCg5FZEk7/U=; b=rWjecaqtGyVc Ip+bp9o9YLkKuYr27Spjv1kO+h0CVPvF5r2EDAzzMkPxG1YfwUlzg2dQUgYmxrenZxLCtEltwWky8 LBY1/0oHQB+qzkypshSsKZayEfcxptHpU0FyNYAkKNNxGCUtWjsPRMraXqbU/XtU3nLaLwMpWypMU xLEwC/YYKcuxTr8A7wBB3k+JsKGKiPMAxynwZN6rsmY1UTC8TN/jshfxU8nQ0OOKPFo7rz5oWPrYO RHd4/JUl2IRdIlsLuxvbNb5bOkBXs/WM3/CwMaC1u3wzyv+7ymaGwUesmqSmNJJbGJThFnrekyjvp g1zGv387K1u8+SNZNZCslQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n3usW-0000ep-Vz; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:02:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Akira Kyle on Sat, 1 Jan 2022 14:08:17 -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:283859 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. ]]] > Okay thanks for explaining why the current process exists in the way > it does. I don't think this is the process described in CONTRIBUTE > though where it instructs one to download the form and fill it out, > then send it. Yes, it is the same. You send in the basic information and the FSF staff take it from there. > However I think there are also contributors who, like me, are curious > as to why the process exists in the form it does. There is some information the reasons for our approach in https://gnu.org/licenses/. -- 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)