Re: "tiny change" + assignment (was: Changes to emacs/man/ChangeLog)

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:54:25 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> >            The FSF is (rightfully, IMHO) picky about having the same
>> > spelling on file and in ChangeLog entries, so I will wait for Richard
>> > to tell what to do in this case.
>> 
>> If we are picky about this, then we have a _huge_ problem!
>> 
>> Just look at the authors-aliases list in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el ...
>
> The way I understand it, the aliases don't matter.  What matters is
> that the log entries use the _legal_ name of the contributor, which is
> the name stated in the papers he/she signed.

The aliases are there because the ChangeLogs and other files use
those _different_ names for authors.  I'm pretty sure that only one
of those names match the one on file.

IANAL either.

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