From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add emms to ELPA Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:49:19 +0900 Message-ID: <87iojhj5vk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <871u7mpszc.fsf@kanis.fr> <87fvelx91y.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413676235 4162 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2014 23:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Development List To: Yoni Rabkin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 01:50:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfdlT-0006R8-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfdlS-0005xb-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfdkf-0005vz-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfdkY-0000Ip-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:37912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfdkX-0000IQ-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472211C3A3A; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:49:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AE5E1A2C6C; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:49:19 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87fvelx91y.fsf@rabkins.net> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175549 Archived-At: Yoni Rabkin writes: > Could there have been significant commits in the past from people who > were not included in the AUTHORS file? Perhaps, but I can't think of an > trustworthy way of figure out if this is the case. I think the only way that the FSF's lawyers will trust is to track down all the committers according to the VCS and read all the commit messages for "patch by" attributions, as well as all change logs if you keep a change log separate from the VCS lot. IANAL and I'm not RMS, either, but since you have that information available, I would expect them (and any judge/jury that might get involved) to consider reading the logs to be due diligence. It's really not that much work, even if you have to do it for the whole of Emacs instead of just one package. The problem of course is that it's terribly tedious, even for a small project.