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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:32:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6hnwsab.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mrWvg-0002Ew-VI@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500
> 
>   > Yes, it's a judgment call.  In this case, given the probability that
>   > Git itself will catch incorrectly formatted author identification, I
>   > see no reason to have this in our docs.
> 
> I see your point.
> 
> But will git catch an _omitted_ author specification?

No, of course not.  It assumes by default that the committer is the
author.

> Maybe we should remind people to specify that.

We already do, in CONTRIBUTE.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-23 16:25 copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 16:59   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 17:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 17:45       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 18:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  5:31           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  7:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  8:03               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-25  8:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27  4:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-27  6:19                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-28  4:24                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  8:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29  3:02                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-30  4:10                               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30 16:45                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01  7:05                                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  8:14               ` Po Lu
2021-11-25  8:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25  9:19                   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 19:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  8:06           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 20:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  8:00           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-24 13:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-24  4:28         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  7:42           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-27  3:24             ` Eric Ludlam
2021-11-28  4:20               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  9:16               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-23 20:00     ` Tassilo Horn
2021-11-24  4:31   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  7:40     ` Uwe Brauer

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