magit copyright assignments

magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Stefan,

Following the recent commit in the etc/TODO for magit below.

'
*** Magit
This needs work on getting the relevant copyright assignments.  This
task should be highly doable for anyone, but will likely require some
patience.  For inspiration, see how this was done for 'use-package':
https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282
'

Would you be able to confirm which contributors are missing assignments
on file?

Examining which contributions are significant may take time.  How about
tackling clarifications by filing this under a bug report for ease of
tracking (not yet part of Emacs so I would like confirmation on the
preferred conventions.)

Below is a recent extract.

**** magit contributors

   8490 Author: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
    609 Author: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
    529 Author: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@gmail.com>
    408 Author: Yann Hodique <yann.hodique@gmail.com>
    371 Author: Phil Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk>
    182 Author: Peter J. Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
    168 Author: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
    156 Author: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
    153 Author: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
     98 Author: Nicolas Dudebout <nicolas.dudebout@gatech.edu>
     50 Author: Natalie Weizenbaum <nex342@gmail.com>
     47 Author: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
     37 Author: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
     30 Author: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
     29 Author: Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
     28 Author: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
     27 Author: Phil Sainty <phil@catalyst.net.nz>
     27 Author: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
     26 Author: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
     25 Author: Takafumi Arakaki <aka.tkf@gmail.com>
     21 Author: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.net>
     18 Author: Alexander Gramiak <fice-t@protonmail.com>
     18 Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
     17 Author: Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@gmail.com>
     17 Author: Aaron Culich <aculich@gmail.com>
     16 Author: Silent Sphere <silentsphere110@gmail.com>
     16 Author: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
     16 Author: Alexey Voinov <alexey.v.voinov@gmail.com>
     15 Author: Ryan C. Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org>
     14 Author: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
     14 Author: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
     13 Author: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
     11 Author: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
     11 Author: Roger Crew <crew@cs.stanford.edu>
     10 Author: Sean Allred <code@seanallred.com>
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      8 Author: Servilio Afre Puentes <afrepues@mcmaster.ca>
      8 Author: Bastian Beischer <beischer@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
      7 Author: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
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      7 Author: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
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      4 Author: Park Zhou <ideapark@petalmail.com>
      4 Author: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
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      4 Author: Alban Gruin <alban@pa1ch.fr>
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      3 Author: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
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      3 Author: Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com>
      3 Author: Graham Clark <grclark@gmail.com>
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      3 Author: Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
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      2 Author: York Zhao <gtdplatform@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Wouter Bolsterlee <wouter@bolsterl.ee>
      2 Author: Troy Hinckley <t.macman@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Tom Feist <shabble@metavore.org>
      2 Author: Ting-Yu Lin <aethanyc@gmail.com>
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      2 Author: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
      2 Author: Szunti <Szunti@users.noreply.github.com>
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      2 Author: Pekka Pessi <nospam@pessi.fi>
      2 Author: Ola Nilsson <ola.nilsson@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Nick Alexander <nalexander@mozilla.com>
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      2 Author: Nguyễn Tuấn Anh <ubolonton@gmail.com>
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      2 Author: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Lin Sun <sunlin7@yahoo.com>
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      2 Author: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
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      2 Author: Jordan Galby <gravemind2a@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Johann Klähn <johann@jklaehn.de>
      2 Author: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
      2 Author: Ingmar Sittl <ingmar.sittl@elektrobit.com>
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      2 Author: Greg Sexton <gregsexton@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Greg Lucas <greg@glucas.net>
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      2 Author: Fritz Grabo <fritz.grabo@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Evgkeni Sampelnikof <esabof@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Evan Torrie <etorrie@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Eric Davis <ed@npri.org>
      2 Author: Duianto Vebotci <vebotci@openmailbox.org>
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      2 Author: Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to>
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      2 Author: Bar Magal <bmagamb@gmail.com>
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      2 Author: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
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      1 Author: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Ynilu <ynilu.chang@gmail.com>
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      1 Author: Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>
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      1 Author: Waqar Hameed <whame91@gmail.com>
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      1 Author: Vladimir Ivanov <ivvl82@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Vitaly Ostashov <hotosho@yandex-team.ru>
      1 Author: Vineet Naik <vineet@helpshift.com>
      1 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
      1 Author: Tunc Uzlu <bb2020@users.noreply.github.com>
      1 Author: Tsuyoshi Kitamoto <tsuyoshi.kitamoto@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
      1 Author: Tim Wraight <tim@wraight.net>
      1 Author: Tim Perkins <tprk77@gmail.com>
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      1 Author: Thomas Jost <thomas.jost@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Thomas Fini Hansen <xen@xen.dk>
      1 Author: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
      1 Author: TEC <tec@tecosaur.com>
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      1 Author: Simon Pintarelli <simon.pintarelli@cscs.ch>
      1 Author: Siavash Askari Nasr <siavash.askari.nasr@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Shuguang Sun <shuguang79@qq.com>
      1 Author: shoefone <52260452+shoefone@users.noreply.github.com>
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      1 Author: Sean Farley <sean@farley.io>
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      1 Author: Sanjoy Das <sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com>
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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:50:17 +0100
> 
> Stefan,
> 
> Following the recent commit in the etc/TODO for magit below.
> 
> '
> *** Magit
> This needs work on getting the relevant copyright assignments.  This
> task should be highly doable for anyone, but will likely require some
> patience.  For inspiration, see how this was done for 'use-package':
> https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282
> '
> 
> Would you be able to confirm which contributors are missing assignments
> on file?

Quite a lot.  Do you need a full list?  Is it feasible to reach out to
all of them?

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:50:17 +0100
>> 
>> Stefan,
>> 
>> Following the recent commit in the etc/TODO for magit below.
>> 
>> '
>> *** Magit
>> This needs work on getting the relevant copyright assignments.  This
>> task should be highly doable for anyone, but will likely require some
>> patience.  For inspiration, see how this was done for 'use-package':
>> https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282
>> '
>> 
>> Would you be able to confirm which contributors are missing assignments
>> on file?
>
> Quite a lot.  Do you need a full list?  Is it feasible to reach out to
> all of them?

I don't know how feasible this is (Jonas may know more on this), but
given the usefulness of magit, I can volunteer to start for some of this
task.

For this reason, yes I would like to see the full list of missings to
guide next steps.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jonas Bernoulli
>  <jonas@bernoul.li>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:39:29 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Would you be able to confirm which contributors are missing assignments
> >> on file?
> >
> > Quite a lot.  Do you need a full list?  Is it feasible to reach out to
> > all of them?
> 
> I don't know how feasible this is (Jonas may know more on this), but
> given the usefulness of magit, I can volunteer to start for some of this
> task.
> 
> For this reason, yes I would like to see the full list of missings to
> guide next steps.

Suit yourself:

    153 Author: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
     50 Author: Natalie Weizenbaum <nex342@gmail.com>
     47 Author: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
     26 Author: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
     25 Author: Takafumi Arakaki <aka.tkf@gmail.com>
     18 Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
     17 Author: Aaron Culich <aculich@gmail.com>
     16 Author: Silent Sphere <silentsphere110@gmail.com>
     16 Author: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
     16 Author: Alexey Voinov <alexey.v.voinov@gmail.com>
     14 Author: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
     11 Author: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
     11 Author: Roger Crew <crew@cs.stanford.edu>
     10 Author: Sean Allred <code@seanallred.com>
      9 Author: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
      8 Author: Servilio Afre Puentes <afrepues@mcmaster.ca>
      7 Author: Teruki Shigitani <teruki.shigitani@gmail.com>
      7 Author: Marcin Bachry <hegel666@gmail.com>
      6 Author: Leonardo Etcheverry <leo@kalio.net>
      5 Author: Justin Guenther <jguenther@gmail.com>
      5 Author: Cornelius Mika <cornelius.mika@gmail.com>
      4 Author: Seong-Kook Shin <cinsky@gmail.com>
      4 Author: Sam Cedarbaum <scedarbaum@gmail.com>
      4 Author: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
      4 Author: rabio <rabiodev@o2.pl>
      4 Author: Park Zhou <ideapark@petalmail.com>
      4 Author: Dale Hagglund <dale.hagglund@gmail.com>
      4 Author: Benjamin Motz <benjamin.motz@mailbox.org>
      4 Author: Alban Gruin <alban@pa1ch.fr>
      4 Author: Alan Falloon <alan.falloon@gmail.com>
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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jonas Bernoulli
>>  <jonas@bernoul.li>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:39:29 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Would you be able to confirm which contributors are missing assignments
>> >> on file?
>> >
>> > Quite a lot.  Do you need a full list?  Is it feasible to reach out to
>> > all of them?
>> 
>> I don't know how feasible this is (Jonas may know more on this), but
>> given the usefulness of magit, I can volunteer to start for some of this
>> task.
>> 
>> For this reason, yes I would like to see the full list of missings to
>> guide next steps.
>
> Suit yourself:
>
>     153 Author: Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
>      50 Author: Natalie Weizenbaum <nex342@gmail.com>
>      47 Author: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
>      26 Author: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
>      25 Author: Takafumi Arakaki <aka.tkf@gmail.com>
>      18 Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
(...)

Many thanks, I've started to email contributors and opened bug#72127 to start the tracking.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Stefan Kangas]

Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> writes:

> Many thanks, I've started to email contributors and opened bug#72127
> to start the tracking.

Thanks for working on this.

Note that we only need copyright assignments from authors that have made
"non-trivial" contributions. So by looking at this more closely you
could probably get the number of names down a bit.

There are no hard rules here but, for starters, we don't need
assignments from authors that have changed fewer than 15 or so lines of
code. Some other contribution(s) might count as trivial even if they
touch more lines (e.g. if they have just been fixing typos, if there are
whitespace changes that take them over the limit, or if they have just
moved some large function).

Do let us know if you have any doubts here, though. Better safe than
sorry.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > Quite a lot.  Do you need a full list?  Is it feasible to reach out to
  > all of them?

Yes.  We will find people to help.

There are ~240 entries in the list of magit contributors who have not
signed papers.  I expect the contributions of most of them are small.

Is it possible to calculate the number of changed lines (from git
diffs) for each of those persons, and sort the list of contributors
without papers by those numbers?  The list of people whose changed or
inserted lines number at least 8 will probably be much shorter.

-- 
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Lele Gaifax]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Is it possible to calculate the number of changed lines (from git
> diffs) for each of those persons, and sort the list of contributors
> without papers by those numbers?  The list of people whose changed or
> inserted lines number at least 8 will probably be much shorter.

This seems handy for the task:

  https://github.com/llbit/git-commit-metrics

bye, lele.
-- 
nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri
real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
lele@metapensiero.it  |                 -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 07:53:52 +0200
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to calculate the number of changed lines (from git
> > diffs) for each of those persons, and sort the list of contributors
> > without papers by those numbers?  The list of people whose changed or
> > inserted lines number at least 8 will probably be much shorter.
> 
> This seems handy for the task:
> 
>   https://github.com/llbit/git-commit-metrics

Thanks, but I think "git annotate" or "C-x v g" will be much more
useful in this case, since we are only interested in how many lines
which are currently in the package a given author is responsible for.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Lele Gaifax]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Thanks, but I think "git annotate" or "C-x v g" will be much more
> useful in this case, since we are only interested in how many lines
> which are currently in the package a given author is responsible for.

It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?

ciao, lele.
-- 
nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri
real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
lele@metapensiero.it  |                 -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:23:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks, but I think "git annotate" or "C-x v g" will be much more
> > useful in this case, since we are only interested in how many lines
> > which are currently in the package a given author is responsible for.
> 
> It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
> 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
> slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
> annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
> else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
> assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
> and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?

What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
that was deleted?

I agree that some forensics and maybe "C-x v h" will be needed, but my
point is that git-commit-metrics is not necessarily the right starting
point, because it could easily show you a very distorted picture.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Lele Gaifax]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
> that was deleted?
>
> I agree that some forensics and maybe "C-x v h" will be needed, but my
> point is that git-commit-metrics is not necessarily the right starting
> point, because it could easily show you a very distorted picture.

But it's nevertheless the only sensible starting point to discriminate
between "greater than X lines" or "less than X", so that you could focus
only on the first set of people, to see if (at least) X lines of my
contributions are still there. With "git annotate"-based approaches, you
end to apply the forensics on all the contributors.

Anyway, got the point.

bye, lele.
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real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
  > > 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
  > > slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
  > > annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
  > > else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
  > > assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
  > > and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?

Lele is right -- so it seems that `git annotate' is not the right way
to count someone's contribution.

  > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
  > that was deleted?

In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.
I think it will not be terribly hard to checl by hand for this
rare situation.



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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: lele@metapensiero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400
> 
>   > > It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
>   > > 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
>   > > slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
>   > > annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
>   > > else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
>   > > assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
>   > > and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?
> 
> Lele is right -- so it seems that `git annotate' is not the right way
> to count someone's contribution.
> 
>   > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
>   > that was deleted?
> 
> In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.

Which means "git annotate" actually _is_ the right way, at least part
of it.  The question is where to start and how to converge between
these two.

> I think it will not be terribly hard to checl by hand for this
> rare situation.

I don't know how to test that by hand.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >   > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
  > >   > that was deleted?
  > > 
  > > In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.

  > Which means "git annotate" actually _is_ the right way, at least part
  > of it.  The question is where to start and how to converge between
  > these two.

In the case where someone's past contribution was all deleed, `git
annotate' would show a sign of that.  But its results can be misleading
in some other cases.

Consider another case: someone did minor edits on all the lines of that
past contribution.  In that case, none of the contributed lines
would survive unchnged, but most of the material of the contribution
would remain.

Thus, one you see that someone made enough contribution to matter,
you need to check the code to see if that contribution is still present
in modified form.
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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

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For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
included in Emacs.

We should save all those emails in one file, and give it to the FSF
copyright assignment people to save.

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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
>
> For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
> should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
> per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
> included in Emacs.

So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
assignment form, which names Emacs.  Would this not be sufficient?

>
> We should save all those emails in one file, and give it to the FSF
> copyright assignment people to save.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:27:25 +0100
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
> > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
> > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
> > included in Emacs.
> 
> So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
> assignment form, which names Emacs.  Would this not be sufficient?

That's unrelated.  We ask all contributors of packages that started as
3rd-party and are added to Emacs to confirm that they agree to donate
their package to Emacs.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:27:25 +0100
>> 
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
>> > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
>> > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
>> > included in Emacs.
>> 
>> So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
>> assignment form, which names Emacs.  Would this not be sufficient?
>
> That's unrelated.  We ask all contributors of packages that started as
> 3rd-party and are added to Emacs to confirm that they agree to donate
> their package to Emacs.

Understood, thanks for explaining.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

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[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
  > > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
  > > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
  > > included in Emacs.

  > So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
  > assignment form, which names Emacs.  Would this not be sufficient?

Yes and no.

Since Magit is not part of Emacs, interpreting the Emacs assignment in
a strict sense says it does not cover magit now.

However, we aim to make magit part of Emacs.

So a lawyer gave me the advice that you've quoted above,
to clarify that the Emacs assignmets DO cover magit.



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Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
>   > > For the magit contributors that have signed papers for Emacs, we
>   > > should ask each one to send an email confirming that perse will regard
>   > > per contributions to magit as contributions to Emacs, once magit is
>   > > included in Emacs.
>
>   > So far I have asked the contributors to consider returning the copyright
>   > assignment form, which names Emacs.  Would this not be sufficient?
>
> Yes and no.
>
> Since Magit is not part of Emacs, interpreting the Emacs assignment in
> a strict sense says it does not cover magit now.
>
> However, we aim to make magit part of Emacs.
>
> So a lawyer gave me the advice that you've quoted above,
> to clarify that the Emacs assignmets DO cover magit.

Thanks for explaining the origin of the advice.

For future iterations and given the importance of defending the GPL
using unambiguous language as far as possible, perhaps it may help to
define a standard text to provide to contributors?

How about something in the style of the 'form' to send to
assign@gnu.org, and that can be distributed by maintainers, proposed
wording below.  WDYT?


--- PROPOSED WORDING
--- INSTRUCTIONS TO SEND TO THE FSF - PACKAGE RELATED

[What is the package considered for inclusion Emacs?]
Package Foo

[Assigment statement]
"I confirm that I regard my contributions to Package Foo as
contributions to Emacs, once Package Foo is included in Emacs."

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:02:38 +0100
> 
> For future iterations and given the importance of defending the GPL
> using unambiguous language as far as possible, perhaps it may help to
> define a standard text to provide to contributors?
> 
> How about something in the style of the 'form' to send to
> assign@gnu.org, and that can be distributed by maintainers, proposed
> wording below.  WDYT?

I think adding this to the copyright-assignment request is not the
best idea: most contributors submit their changes directly to Emacs,
so this issue doesn't arise.  This issue is relevant only when a
package that was maintained outside of Emacs is being incorporated
into Emacs, and those cases are quite rare.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:02:38 +0100
>> 
>> For future iterations and given the importance of defending the GPL
>> using unambiguous language as far as possible, perhaps it may help to
>> define a standard text to provide to contributors?
>> 
>> How about something in the style of the 'form' to send to
>> assign@gnu.org, and that can be distributed by maintainers, proposed
>> wording below.  WDYT?
>
> I think adding this to the copyright-assignment request is not the
> best idea: most contributors submit their changes directly to Emacs,
> so this issue doesn't arise.  This issue is relevant only when a
> package that was maintained outside of Emacs is being incorporated
> into Emacs, and those cases are quite rare.

It appears I didn't explain my idea clearly enough, I'll attempt to clarify.

I am proposing a *separate*, much smaller, form, modelled on the main
form.  A sort of 'package form'. The advantages are

1. The wording can be agreed in advance to be the most appropriate.

2. This 'package form' can be distributed by the Emacs maintainers to
those volunteers willing to follow-up on package assignments, and
everybody uses the best wording as per 1.

WDYT?

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:53:31 +0100
> 
> It appears I didn't explain my idea clearly enough, I'll attempt to clarify.
> 
> I am proposing a *separate*, much smaller, form, modelled on the main
> form.  A sort of 'package form'. The advantages are
> 
> 1. The wording can be agreed in advance to be the most appropriate.
> 
> 2. This 'package form' can be distributed by the Emacs maintainers to
> those volunteers willing to follow-up on package assignments, and
> everybody uses the best wording as per 1.

If this is for us, then how is it different from just asking whether
they contribute the package?  The assignment form is a form because the
FSF assignment clerk needs to collect specific information, but here
no specific information is needed, just an informal agreement.

IOW, why codify and formalize something that is informal to begin
with, and a simple question to ask?

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:53:31 +0100
>> 
>> It appears I didn't explain my idea clearly enough, I'll attempt to clarify.
>> 
>> I am proposing a *separate*, much smaller, form, modelled on the main
>> form.  A sort of 'package form'. The advantages are
>> 
>> 1. The wording can be agreed in advance to be the most appropriate.
>> 
>> 2. This 'package form' can be distributed by the Emacs maintainers to
>> those volunteers willing to follow-up on package assignments, and
>> everybody uses the best wording as per 1.
>
> If this is for us, then how is it different from just asking whether
> they contribute the package?  The assignment form is a form because the
> FSF assignment clerk needs to collect specific information, but here
> no specific information is needed, just an informal agreement.
>


> IOW, why codify and formalize something that is informal to begin
> with, and a simple question to ask?

Because, at least from my own interpretation of the thread, that by
asking the question in an imprecise manner it may not satisfy the
conditions set by the advice from the lawyer.  Hence the suggestion to
formalize the question itself, even if short.

But perhaps this is an abundance of caution on my part, I have so far limited
experience of following up contributor's assignments.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:36:21 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> >> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:53:31 +0100
> >> 
> >> It appears I didn't explain my idea clearly enough, I'll attempt to clarify.
> >> 
> >> I am proposing a *separate*, much smaller, form, modelled on the main
> >> form.  A sort of 'package form'. The advantages are
> >> 
> >> 1. The wording can be agreed in advance to be the most appropriate.
> >> 
> >> 2. This 'package form' can be distributed by the Emacs maintainers to
> >> those volunteers willing to follow-up on package assignments, and
> >> everybody uses the best wording as per 1.
> >
> > If this is for us, then how is it different from just asking whether
> > they contribute the package?  The assignment form is a form because the
> > FSF assignment clerk needs to collect specific information, but here
> > no specific information is needed, just an informal agreement.
> >
> 
> 
> > IOW, why codify and formalize something that is informal to begin
> > with, and a simple question to ask?
> 
> Because, at least from my own interpretation of the thread, that by
> asking the question in an imprecise manner it may not satisfy the
> conditions set by the advice from the lawyer.  Hence the suggestion to
> formalize the question itself, even if short.
> 
> But perhaps this is an abundance of caution on my part, I have so far limited
> experience of following up contributor's assignments.

IME, the exact words to reach out depend on the package and its
developers, so I think it is best not to have any standard wording,
but leave it to the Emacs maintainer to come up with it.

Re: magit copyright assignments

[Richard Stallman]

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[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > If this is for us, then how is it different from just asking whether
  > they contribute the package?  The assignment form is a form because the
  > FSF assignment clerk needs to collect specific information, but here
  > no specific information is needed, just an informal agreement.

One obvious difference is that in this case we already do have an
assignment contract, and the question is presisely what "contributios
to Emacs" covers.  ISTR that the lawyer considered an simple statement,
that we had a record of, to be sufficient.


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