From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment for GNUS vs. EMACS Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:22:44 +0100 Message-ID: <85649gmw57.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173050589 21541 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2007 23:23:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 00:23:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HO02d-0007Az-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO02d-0002sv-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:22:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO02R-0002se-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HO02R-0002sR-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO02R-0002sO-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HO02Q-0002UG-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50928225EE8; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:22:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CD8ABAE1; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:22:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-052-195.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.52.195]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F1A1C71C4; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:22:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 842C01C460D3; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:22:44 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Mon\, 05 Mar 2007 00\:01\:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67321 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > In the assignments file, we have separate assignments for GNUS and > EMACS. But since GNUS is included with EMACS these days, does an > assignment for EMACS cover changes to GNUS too? If one wanted to be really anal about it, the assignment expresses the intent of the contributor about _what_ code contributions should be unambiguously considered the property of the FSF, not _where_ they may end up. With that interpretation, a contribution made to the Emacs CVS would have been cleared as being the property of the FSF (from whence it may be propagated into GNUS with that ownership), whereas a contribution made to the GNUS CVS would not appear declared as transferred to the FSF (and would not become so even if somebody else took it and propagated it back into Emacs). I am not sure that even the FSF's lawyers are as paranoid as that, though. But since some might delight in that level of nitpicking, I decided to contribute it nevertheless. In any case, it should be safe if one just checks into CVS servers of those projects for which one has an assignment. > OTOH, I guess that an assigment for GNUS doesn't cover EMACS in general. Yup, that too. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum