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: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> 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="83577"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, casouri@gmail.com, ndame@protonmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 07 04:44:47 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 1jWWWk-000Lcv-Ae for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 04:44:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWWj-0000wW-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWVU-00087E-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWVU-0005fj-2l; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWVT-0002MP-7U; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:47:35 +0100) 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:249138 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. ]]] > It should be possible to check automatically whether commits coming in > from any git repo are from someone who has assigned copyright. That > would, at least, remove the hassle in the case where the papers have > been done. How could that be possible? How would we know who wrote those changes? We can't assume it is the person whose account checked them in. Often that is so, but not always. There may be other issues, such as, if the name on that account is John Doe, does that mean the user of that account is the same John Doe that signed an assignment? It is not terrible lot of work for people to deal with those issues, but I wouldn't assume a simple program can. -- 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)