Re: Magit

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:04:23 +0000
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >   > I don't think that will ever happen.  Magit has many contributors, and
> >   > many of them hasn't completed the paperwork.
> >
> > Talking with them about this is not impossible.  It just takes work.
> 
> Magit itself has 315 contributors of which approximately 70-90 have
> significant contributions by my estimate.  There are certainly a few
> that have already signed the CA, but there are plenty that have done so
> either a long while ago and would not be difficult to contact.  And
> with this many people there are always plenty who are disinterested or
> actively hostile towards assigning their copyright, which is always an
> unpleasant situation.
> 
> It might not be "impossible" in the literal sense of the word, but that
> doesn't make it much easier either.

AFAIK, the job of getting this done, however formidable, was already
under way.  Jonas described its progress on several occasions.