Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > > You should always commit with --author set to the author's name.  The
  > > > attribution should be as accurate as possible, regardless of whether
  > > > the contribution is legally significant.

Perhaps we should send a message about this point
to each person with commit access.  Our committers would more
reliably do it, with this reminder.


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