Copyright Assignment

Copyright Assignment

[Jinyi Xian]

Hi

I want to contribute to an elpa package (org-notify) and would like to
make a copyright assignment.

I will appreciate your help.

Kind regards,

Jinyi

Re: Copyright Assignment

[Emanuel Berg]

Jinyi Xian wrote:

> I want to contribute to an elpa package (org-notify) and
> would like to make a copyright assignment.
>
> I will appreciate your help.

Good question, I got a mail "Tarball build failure for
wrap-search" which seems to boil down to

  Missing copyright notice in wrap-search/wrap-search.el

Maybe you should just add

;; Copyright: J Hacker (1997)

to the headers?

I think looking at how other people do it is probably the way
to find out. Okay, I'm on it ...

If you refer to the signing of a document, they should mail
you and using a PDF overlay it can be solved digitally.

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Re: Copyright Assignment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jinyi Xian <kylerky@live.com>
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:11:02 +0800
> 
> Hi
> 
> I want to contribute to an elpa package (org-notify) and would like to
> make a copyright assignment.
> 
> I will appreciate your help.

Thanks, form sent off-list.

Re: Copyright Assignment

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:21:08 +0200
> 
> Jinyi Xian wrote:
> 
> > I want to contribute to an elpa package (org-notify) and
> > would like to make a copyright assignment.
> >
> > I will appreciate your help.
> 
> Good question, I got a mail "Tarball build failure for
> wrap-search" which seems to boil down to
> 
>   Missing copyright notice in wrap-search/wrap-search.el
> 
> Maybe you should just add
> 
> ;; Copyright: J Hacker (1997)
> 
> to the headers?
> 
> I think looking at how other people do it is probably the way
> to find out. Okay, I'm on it ...
> 
> If you refer to the signing of a document, they should mail
> you and using a PDF overlay it can be solved digitally.

This is all completely unrelated to the OP's request.

Re: Copyright Assignment

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Good question, I got a mail "Tarball build failure for
>> wrap-search" which seems to boil down to
>> 
>>   Missing copyright notice in wrap-search/wrap-search.el
>> 
>> Maybe you should just add
>> 
>> ;; Copyright: J Hacker (1997)
>> 
>> to the headers?
>> 
>> I think looking at how other people do it is probably the way
>> to find out. Okay, I'm on it ... [...]
>
> This is all completely unrelated to the OP's request.

If I'm allowed to change the subject then, for GNU ELPA one
needs

;; Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

as well as

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;;
;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Don't indent that BTW! If you do the folding doesn't work with
`elide-head-mode'.

Also, after getting the error from GNU ELPA that I reported
one should, apart from adding those two things, increment the
version number so that ELPA will notice and compile the new
version changes.

The error message I got in a mail was clear for me to, after
several days of not thinking about it, figure out the problem.
But it could be more clear, possibly hyperlinking to or
even including a boilerplate GNU ELPA package file to show
exactly how it should look.

I managed to solve it by looking at/in sml-mode.el which
I already had from GNU ELPA, but it was a close call, and
anywhere below that on the cognitive scale - for me
personally, or inside another person - I suppose one would
have been completely incomprehensive as to what it was that
was suppose to happen. Oh ye humanity!

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Changing subject [was: Copyright Assignment]

[tomas]

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On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:18:15AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> If I'm allowed to change the subject then, for GNU ELPA one
> needs

Knowing this list I guess you are, but changing the subject
line accordingly would be the polite thing to do.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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Re: Changing subject [was: Copyright Assignment]

[Stefan Kangas]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:18:15AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> If I'm allowed to change the subject then, for GNU ELPA one
>> needs
>
> Knowing this list I guess you are,

Please don't encourage that.

We want to improve the situation on the list, not make it worse.

improving the list [was: Re: Changing subject [was: Copyright Assignment]]

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Kangas wrote:

>>> If I'm allowed to change the subject then, for GNU ELPA
>>> one needs [...]
>>
>> Knowing this list I guess you are [...]
>
> Please don't encourage that.
>
> We want to improve the situation on the list, not make
> it worse.

Okay, so what problem(s) does it have?

There has been some increased bad blood in recent days, if
that is what you mean, with people getting frustrated at each
other and so on - but from where I looked it appeared it was
kept at a reasonable level?

One should remember that frustration is often because people
are passionate about their things, and involve in their
activities, including discussing them here, so while
frustration is negative in isolation, I think one cannot ban
it without also harming the level of creativity among people.

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