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 assignment Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lepa3pbi.fsf@disroot.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="18917"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 06:28:39 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 1omp4n-0004hO-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:28:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omnId-00052G-6T; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgQM-0008Ae-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgQM-0001u5-HJ; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:18 -0400 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=ivWditrXlZWT8eX8Sra74OO5BGtKxzjTG3/JSudUzHk=; b=eF08iCNvEFiw 5994DD8wUueh6bXxRNuTK/PXEWGnzHaxQYG1VvHE05r3W+Cw3CKWKtPiNm8MPQ0Lcu2y6Ew6T5Ehu eIaLM9V2BOILxISXxE5L/lDhqmty7hcdea5bnYdykDJC+7csmOVyvOgVLan8Ca8SkS688hs/WqeFo ewTVbkwezsFXxY3AFkPdJugbt/6OTGtWswNQO8aMVsrcVMcNRfKb9WMTB+m00DkIUpJ+sl4k94lJE MsOCz6HMKJgbNp6KkFp9i2sfZjU81+3AD7V2rT6RXVIxMKmHjgzQ/E+IjbW9+ysV3KiFnpSVpIph/ eIaVPd202mVizqXZhCQ3/A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omgQK-0006qb-SV; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:14:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:44:01 -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: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298308 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. ]]] > FWIW, coreutils don't have people ask on the mailing list about this, > they just have this note in their HACKING file: > The forms to choose from are in gnulib's doc/Copyright/ directory. > If you want to assign a single change, you should use the file, > doc/Copyright/request-assign.changes: That looks like the old way we used to do things, before we developed the simpler way we have used for a decade or two. So you're proposing two changes at once: 1. To publish in the Emacs distro a statement of what contributors should do, and 2. To recommend the old way instead of the current way. I think #1 is fine, but we should not do #2. -- 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)