From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pull requests Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu87ji39.fsf@dick> <87v9mvp2ms.fsf@blind.guru> <87d093f6lj.fsf@dick> <87369yc79r.fsf@dick> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="2890"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: mlang@delysid.org, Philippe Vaucher , emacs-devel@gnu.org, jackhill@jackhill.us, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 04:49:48 2020 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 1jHg0B-0000dS-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:49:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36642 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jHg0A-0002VM-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jHfzf-00025f-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jHfze-0007SR-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:46380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jHfze-0007RU-4u; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 620C781474; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 456DC80E04; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:11 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1585280951; bh=tDCCVM5sQvu9+PJ36Oq8MMIEv7fU5elRhpkK4ANXHNg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=WEMGVo9ha9dyQwdMeOBHRDEHZTfoojWczq433/MJpSyNQHZGEiBqxPZj7y/BQJpmb rIxS+hO0eElRNt9JiGxo/T+t1dgJ3b/Uf6686ikv8fkCUlKKpKWR88HU/xm2iVbOI6 p/seXBlJm9lRXzI2frONi2+QNYDu8vddSRMy4/r1/p6bDawN0I4YNuxuHNrW/v6fhq MArhcEZ0yn64MiQOaNkYwk1LdWtEH8GFqVDNUCF2mj48J3xJBO3SIYfmKX+tkrNXlq gH4C/dSl++59WZhKPRjesktiA1y6gD83NZ8Mo4iUksCAjjzmgrLM5boSXu7Ea2bHeq yjyI6Vj1TKVaw== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.241.114]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87D161202C1; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:59:35 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:245828 Archived-At: > In place of that simple wall, there would be a criterion that requires > judgment. Emacs developers would understand that criterion, but the > public and the courts would not reliably understand. This could cause > problems of a legal nature, problems of a moral nature, and problems > of explanation. > > The legal problems: there could be code without copyright assignments. I don't see the problem: many packages on Savannah don't have their copyright assigned to the FSF, so the FSF's servers have been distributing code without copyright assignments for years already. Nothing new here. Stefan