From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:45:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83y255twxf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y25eq1o6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83r1b6om8i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtluq046.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83o86aokoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7c2pxzr.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83k0gyohy4.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0gw7jiv.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgpsk6g7.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83h7c07j8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilwe15oo.fsf@gnu.org> <838rx8ya46.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6hnwsab.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39022"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 17:47:37 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6I4-0009vr-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:47:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6I3-0003IZ-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6FQ-0000wG-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=39328 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6FP-0004vK-Mk; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:44:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=1WAyH3sYNQ/xpF7iPXyFI69/RYcEBiIvhvGB6gfAxV0=; b=MpUX9o1nrWvn 0iN9uIvw80BmL1XCLQ7cwMsozp4QISbxbjFIkmfqWOnSDaH9Gv7aXr7zPFZWtaMfzMPd5JtUj5PU4 idedah6aGQv0MBPxHLDelhMgT5R/rOPbQ8rDrXXC42SONqWlbKYmaK64XZ5wlm8tK8r2ytXkxnVts rW/IauoeokhiNY4CWlFp/q5gzSXPkUg65x9e7B+Ec1ispMZ8DZCiqsZQ1bNU+ILdPEemBb/ra+HEw gbsaZwvjVuLJoDRwf792kQLJ4gyc9IyvNef9Q9JJ7mDmoRzSztta/K9C12iL0aK+bjISdiwgd1Qwj mNFSDL0BlpSQNFCOLQxmiA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1840 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6FJ-0005K3-IS; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:44:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280543 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -0500 > > > > Maybe we should remind people to specify that. > > > We already do, in CONTRIBUTE. > > Yes, but as we've noticed, people don't look at that very often. > A person who has contributed for a year, and checked in only per > own work, and then for the first time checks in someone else's work, > is very likely to forget about --author. There's nothing we can do about things people forget, except tell them, sometimes post-factum, that the procedures are in CONTRIBUTE, in the hope that next time they will look there when in doubt. CONTRIBUTE is our basic document for this kind of stuff, and I cannot see any way to make it more in the face of contributors than having it in a file with a telltale name right at the top of our tree.