Re: pull requests

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 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.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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