Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
  > > 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
  > > slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
  > > annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
  > > else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
  > > assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
  > > and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?

Lele is right -- so it seems that `git annotate' is not the right way
to count someone's contribution.

  > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
  > that was deleted?

In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.
I think it will not be terribly hard to checl by hand for this
rare situation.



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