Re: copyright assignment (Re: Patch: ERC italic text support)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:35:17 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Emanuel Berg via "Emacs development discussions." <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> I am a first-time contributor to Emacs so I'd like to
> >> request a copy of the copyright assignment.
> >
> > Form sent off-list.
> 
> What does this mean? I don't know if I contributed to
> Emacs, not directly to the end product for sure, to
> Emacs culture perhaps and indirectly by helping the OP
> once in a while on gmane.emacs.help ... but regardless
> of whatever, what is "the copyright assignment"

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html

> and why does it have to be sent off-list?

Because it is of no interest to the list, and OTOH I'd like people to
know I sent it so others won't (thinking no one did).