From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8306DE00CC for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.011 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.011 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.000, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WYJJnfZtm2NQ for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1CD46DE00BF for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bQa56-00054L-73; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:01:32 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 8422 invoked by uid 1000); Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:01:08 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Matt Armstrong , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add Google Inc. to AUTHORS as a contributor. In-Reply-To: <1469136633-19235-2-git-send-email-marmstrong@google.com> References: <1469136633-19235-1-git-send-email-marmstrong@google.com> <1469136633-19235-2-git-send-email-marmstrong@google.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.22.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:01:08 -0300 Message-ID: <877fcdltd7.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:01:20 -0000 Matt Armstrong writes: > By virtue of being a Google employee I'm required to contribute > software in the name of Google and not myself. Google retains > whatever rights (and liabilities) that come from having done so, not > myself. As long as this is clear, and my association with Google is > clear, my employer is quite supportive of my making these > contributions. I've no objection to this in principle, but 1) if we start updating AUTHORS after 7 years of neglect, I think we need to do a more systematic job. I'm tempted to script the output of "git shortlog" as part of the release process. In id:1469191654-5922-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net, I've posted the beginnings of a mailmap file. What about adding something like Google Inc. (by way of Matt Armstrong) to the mailmap file? If that sounds reasonable to you, I'll leave it to you to play with the mailmap syntax to get what you want. 2) If you think the corporate overlords are fine with a mention of contribution in AUTHORS, that's also fine for me, but note that this is distinct from a claim of copyright. There are copyright headers in every source file, so if you want to claim copyright on behalf of your employer (which is fine, I think we're not fussed about people adding themselves to copyright headers for anything more than 2 lines of change or so) then you'll want to update those headers. At least, that would be that safer option, rather than thinking such a claim is implicit.