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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Submission of Matrix Kronecker Product for calc
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:56:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yg3ar2icqs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1JXTQ2-0001ae-8W@fencepost.gnu.org

Richard Stallman wrote:

> For a medium-size contribution, a disclaimer is just fine.
> It is only for large amounts of code that we prefer an assignment.
>
> Also, if someone wants to keep contributing, the past-and-future
> assignment has the advantage that it will cover future work.
> But if someone doesn't expect to contribute more later,
> thns advantage doesn't apply.

Isn't there something to be said for: i) assuming that contributors
will want to continue contributing; and ii) trying to minimize the
number of pieces of paper people have to sign? I've always offered
assign-past-and-future for the whole of Emacs as a default option to
contributors, no matter how much they contribute initially. Should I
stop doing this? Is there some reason to actually _prefer_ a
disclaimer for smaller changes?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 12:43 Submission of Matrix Kronecker Product for calc Vincent Belaïche
2008-03-05 21:00 ` Jay Belanger
2008-03-05 22:09   ` David Kastrup
2008-03-06  1:25     ` Jay Belanger
2008-03-06  8:36       ` David Kastrup
2008-03-07  3:36       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07  3:38     ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 18:56       ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-03-08  6:29         ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-02 21:37 Vincent Belaïche
2008-03-05  3:22 ` Jay Belanger

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