From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.reitter@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) Date: 6 Jan 2006 03:08:38 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1136545718.892745.304620@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <54321A2A-3F36-4416-B473-49AC11FF057F@gmail.com> <853bk5gwa8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <792D87C1-B9A9-495E-9335-7139845D1CB0@gmail.com> <85fyo4zvei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sls47lvd.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <85wthftsme.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874q4jrvcg.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <1136466925.401877.151800@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <85ek3msrqt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136551033 1198 80.91.229.2 (6 Jan 2006 12:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 13:37:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euqq7-0006F9-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:37:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euqrs-0003YA-Jq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:38:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.74.89 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1136545723 29858 127.0.0.1 (6 Jan 2006 11:08:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:08:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <85ek3msrqt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.41.74.89; posting-account=VxtxShIAAAAyATreB9RNYoFcRu4SpMFVEC9YFuAlbPn1KBMEY3FC1g Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136873 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32492 Archived-At: > Get real. You are headed for permanent forking for the sake of a > non-free platform. Don't worry, that won't happen unless I get more people (coders) help me. I don't have the time to follow through with something like that. > A lot of multi-person projects have sunken into oblivion because past > contributors changed their mind, could not be brought around, or even > contacted anymore. OK, so what legal documents are there that I can make people sign, say, for code that will not be integrated into a GNU project at this time, but might be when the time comes? I know that certain "qualified signatures" (e.g. via X.509 cert, signed by a "trusted party", i.e. Thawte/Verisign etc.) do have legally binding status in some legislations at this point. I wonder if these things can be be used to sign code including a contract that contains the same stuff that we need to sign when contributing to GNU projects. If we can get the "paper" out of "paperwork", things would suddenly become much more manageable.