From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One-click copyright assignments?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:56:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfuiiuhvu.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ed16271b-14d8-b0c6-909f-a27e89479e21@gmail.com
>> Just doing that would be a significant improvement I think. The user
>> can then immediately get the PDF, and sign it without any delay.
>> It would still have the delay to receive the signed PDF, check it,
>> etc... which involves a human (Donald again, AFAIK), but: one step at
>> a time.
> Must it? Can't the PGP signature on the PDF be manually validated?
Technically, when the process can be done without actual paper, maybe
it's possible, I don't know (hell, I don't even know if uses PGP).
I just assume this part is more delicate to modify because that's where
the "legal validity" checks would happen.
>> This said, this is an FSF-issue, not specific to Emacs, so it would be
>> better to discuss it elsewhere.
> Can you indicate what the proper mailing list would be (noting that there is
Maybe gnu-prog-discuss@gnu.org (mailing of maintainers of GNU packages)?
Tho you'd probably just get agreement from them, so maybe good to get
support but to get actual movement maybe it's better to send it to
assign@gnu.org and to rms@gnu.org?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-13 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 11:08 One-click copyright assignments? Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-12 17:07 ` Filipe Silva
2017-03-12 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-12 17:56 ` Drew Adams
2017-03-12 19:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-13 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-03-13 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2017-03-13 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-14 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2017-03-13 16:56 ` Richard Stallman
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