Re: Copyright assignment

[Stefan Kangas]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > FWIW, coreutils don't have people ask on the mailing list about this,
>   > they just have this note in their HACKING file:
>
>   >   The forms to choose from are in gnulib's doc/Copyright/ directory.
>   >   If you want to assign a single change, you should use the file,
>   >   doc/Copyright/request-assign.changes:
>
> That looks like the old way we used to do things, before we
> developed the simpler way we have used for a decade or two.
> So you're proposing two changes at once:
>
> 1. To publish in the Emacs distro a statement of what contributors
> should do, and
>
> 2. To recommend the old way instead of the current way.
>
> I think #1 is fine, but we should not do #2.

Could you please explain what "the old way" and "the current way" is
in the above?