RE: Assignment overview (again)

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>]

That is a reason why the full list cannot go up, not a reason why any list cannot go up.

I think I've seen it suggested before, but there might be an electronic way of achieving this. Like, for example, signing peoples
GPG key with a FSF key. This would let people assert that they have copyright assigned at least.

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From: emacs-devel-bounces+phillip.lord=newcastle.ac.uk@gnu.org [emacs-devel-bounces+phillip.lord=newcastle.ac.uk@gnu.org] on behalf of Eli Zaretskii [eliz@gnu.org]
Sent: 24 December 2015 19:37
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Assignment overview (again)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:31:08 +0100
>
> One of the most irksome tasks when applying patches from others is
> finding out whether they've made copyright assignments.  I can either
> send them an email asking them ("Yeah, and you've applied thirteen
> patches from me from 1997-2014"; I have no memory for these things at
> all) or ask somebody else, and that all takes time.
>
> I can't be the only one that has this problem.

You aren't.  If you have an account on fencepost.gnu.org, you can look
them up in the list that is maintained there.

Failing that, ask here, or email me or John privately.

> Is it totally out of the question to put the assignment list up on the
> web somewhere?

I don't think we can, it includes personal details of people,
sometimes details they don't want to publish (like real names of
people who use pseudonyms).