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: magit copyright assignments Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bk31mgue.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86frsdjm20.fsf@gnu.org> <87v815j30v.fsf@metapensiero.it> <867cdliq8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87ikx5s12c.fsf@metapensiero.it> <86le21gpog.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="486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: lele@metapensiero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 05:22:26 2024 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 1sUHir-000AQN-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:22:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi4-00089M-4m; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:36 -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 1sUHi2-000899-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:34 -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 1sUHi1-0003pS-7a; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:33 -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=g1oVa+5QKP5vyF622E/2QD4Rr2hIf7MbsbXfqmegyO8=; b=WaflwMXvsqkh mL+M2HyFilWBu9l+wzbIe9xUw0nr45vVAb4ibuFOVOyVNl4z/B7Z3KQYpibs2zr1JdOdtsh18lB+h X5ShaCGnm/tnCq4BMxLr9TL2X7mMcLXeufG8LwFrY2zXT6hfnmIaSx7n9yETx8LKT8ZzZ7/kIR9/t mZxvuKFCAnVq4BfwziblVMEzwNATdx/TL2RosqM1MFoRtto8AuZIdiFoGBJ9jLX6TgqFdJtKmYyGN Y2yvOeATmMB4sd0V4ylBmRBSpB9dARvQCNt5TUPN0bcgVzcFdHv1ge/AWxRBKI5iQuNaiGza2sZZv ROdnbQP646ftVZyC6PAQuA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUHi0-0005lV-RL; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86le21gpog.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:25:03 +0300) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321768 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. ]]] > > 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. -- 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)