From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pull requests Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu87ji39.fsf@dick> <87v9mvp2ms.fsf@blind.guru> <87d093f6lj.fsf@dick> <87369yc79r.fsf@dick> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="75478"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mlang@delysid.org, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jackhill@jackhill.us, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 03:47:44 2020 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 1jI1Vg-000JYh-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 03:47:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49488 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Vf-0006yh-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1UB-0005v8-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1UA-0000Tl-E2; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Tu-0004qn-0l; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:09 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:245852 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > The legal problems: there could be code without copyright assignments. > I don't see the problem: many packages on Savannah don't have their > copyright assigned to the FSF, so the FSF's servers have been > distributing code without copyright assignments for years already. You have equated two different kinds of cases: FSF-copyrighted packages and non-FSF-copyrighted packages. Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, so we do not allow code into the repo unless it has a copyright assignment. This is a legal policy, not a technical one. To change it for merely technical reasons would be to let the tail wag the dog. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)