From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Assignment overview (again) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:40:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87wps3r6df.fsf@gnus.org>,<83si2rmyd1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450993304 1105 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 21:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Eli Zaretskii , Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 22:41:32 2015 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 1aCDdb-0000UP-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCDda-0000Y1-Kx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; 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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:196807 Archived-At: 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 copyrig= ht assigned at least. ________________________________________ From: emacs-devel-bounces+phillip.lord=3Dnewcastle.ac.uk@gnu.org [emacs-dev= el-bounces+phillip.lord=3Dnewcastle.ac.uk@gnu.org] on behalf of Eli Zaretsk= ii [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 > 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).