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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
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Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:21:07 +0000 |
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David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> I've never learnt working with Bzr and never checked out the Emacs
> repository with it.
>
> That did not preclude me from sending the occasional patch to the list,
> based on the Git mirror of the Emacs repository.
etc/CONTRIBUTE doesn't mention this.
> With regard to copyright assignments, you pretend that it is some magic
> ritual of initiation. There is nobody who'd be more glad than the FSF
> if this kind of paperwork was without merit and unneeded. Thank your
> law makers for that. Or better, tell them that you want them to work on
> getting back the situation before the Berne convention where copyright
> is only asserted when a copyright notice is placed in a document.
Copyright assignment is a significant barrier to entry, I think, when
projects have started *outside* emacs and then come in. Getting your own
papers done is enough without having to encouraging others. Not the FSF
fault, I agree.
Perhaps the FSF should generate a nice icon, or have a public list (for
those that want it) of those who have already done this assignment. It
would be a small badge of honour, but would also make it easier for
people developing outside whether a potential contributor has already
had this done. A FSF-ready icon would be good also, that people could
put in their README.
Just a thought.
Phil
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, (continued)
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/20
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/20
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Bastien, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Engster, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/19