Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 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.

How could that be possible?  How would we know who wrote those
changes?  We can't assume it is the person whose account checked them
in.  Often that is so, but not always.

There may be other issues, such as, if the name on that account is
John Doe, does that mean the user of that account is the same John Doe
that signed an assignment?

It is not terrible lot of work for people to deal with those issues,
but I wouldn't assume a simple program can.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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