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Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Ema
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:11:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> It is worth saying that while the process of getting copyright
> assignment is clunky, it is not insurmountable. However, the process of
> working out whether someone has copyright assignment already is a total
> pain.
I'm lucky enough to have access to fencepost.gnu.org where the
`copyright.list` file is kept, so I can look it up fairly easily, but
for those who aren't so lucky it's indeed a problem.
> It should be possible to check automatically whether commits coming in
> from any git repo are from someone who has assigned copyright. That
> would, at least, remove the hassle in the case where the papers have
> been done.
I think for privacy reasons we can't distribute `copyright.list` itself.
But we could maintain a list of people who have signed the paperwork,
built from publicly available information, i.e. from the Git log of
emacs.git and elpa.git. While not being on that list wouldn't be
a guarantee that paperwork is needed, it would still be helpful,
I think.
Any taker?
Sefan
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Tim Cross, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/25