js2-mode contributions from Stephen Hicks

js2-mode contributions from Stephen Hicks

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi all,

The new version of js2-mode, which I'm going to push to GNU ELPA 
shortly, contains quite a bit of code written by Stephen Hicks, a Google 
employee, who hasn't himself signed the copyright assignment.

The copyright clerk said it's okay, because Google has a corporate 
agreement with FSF, and the work was apparently done on company's time.

But I didn't know how to annotate that situation in the commit history, 
hence this email.

Thanks for your attention,
Dmitry.

Re: js2-mode contributions from Stephen Hicks

[Stefan Monnier]

> The copyright clerk said it's okay, because Google has a corporate agreement
> with FSF, and the work was apparently done on company's time.

Yes, IIUC it's indeed OK legally speaking, but we don't have a good way
of dealing with it.

> But I didn't know how to annotate that situation in the commit history,
> hence this email.

I don't think there's a predefined way to do it.
IOW we have to invent one.
For ChangeLog, I'd use a syntax like

    2015-02-01  Stephen Hicks  <foo@bar>  (assigned by Google)

For the commit message, I guess we could use something like
"Signed-Off-By: Google, Inc."


        Stefan

Re: js2-mode contributions from Stephen Hicks

[raman]

It would be good to get this smoothened out -- there are a lot of us at
Google who hack emacs and making the contribution process smooth would
make it easy on everyone -- what you propose sounds perfect.