Re: Copyright verification service

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 25/05/2020 03.58, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I've toyed with this idea myself for a while.
> 
> I don't know if it is a good idea for the GNU project in general, but
> as someone who sometimes need to check the copyright status of some
> contributors for Org/Emacs, the current setup is fine for me.
> 
> Although, I don't think authentication would be optional as we should
> by default assume that the list of signed contributors should be kept
> private, shouldn't we?

The API idea was discussed in depth two weeks ago, as part of the very long 
thread on packages not getting included in ELPA; see 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01909.html.  The 
conclusion was that email addresses are not private, since they appear in 
commits anyway.   rms said he would talk to the FSF sysadmins to see if 
something was feasible.

Clément.