Re: Copyright assignment

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 14/12/2023 22:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:09:02 +0200
> > Cc:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,akib@disroot.org,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >
> > On 21/10/2022 14:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >     . we will still get requests about this, the only difference is that
> > >       we will be able to point to the repository instead of sending it
> > >       (I'm not sure which way is better for the person who asks about
> > >       the form)
> > Somebody else (e.g. a maintainer on some package on ELPA) would be able
> > to skip a step or two and send would-be contributors a link to the
> > repository.
> And they are unable to do that today? why not?

I've done this many times, but it never really felt like the "right 
thing to do" since it's not the documented course of action, more like a 
quick hack that happens to work by imitation.

Until our policy changes and we start asking for more (or different) 
info, while Org's version of that file in the repository gets outdated.