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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:10:00 -0500
> 
>   > > Maybe we should remind people to specify that.
> 
>   > We already do, in CONTRIBUTE.
> 
> Yes, but as we've noticed, people don't look at that very often.
> A person who has contributed for a year, and checked in only per
> own work, and then for the first time checks in someone else's work,
> is very likely to forget about --author.

There's nothing we can do about things people forget, except tell
them, sometimes post-factum, that the procedures are in CONTRIBUTE, in
the hope that next time they will look there when in doubt.
CONTRIBUTE is our basic document for this kind of stuff, and I cannot
see any way to make it more in the face of contributors than having it
in a file with a telltale name right at the top of our tree.