From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72376 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Copyright assignments, policies, conventions (was: [PATCH] Introduce gnus-completing-read) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:17:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87d3ru5teq.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <1285688153-19680-1-git-send-email-julien@danjou.info> <87wrq5ammm.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> <87eicdacn6.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> <87hbh9tx2x.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87y6aj7mp2.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87y6aj4jjk.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> <87hbh74gb5.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> <87d3rv4fvz.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> <87sk0r2xzc.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285913858 20517 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 06:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:17:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20749@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 01 08:17:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Yw2-0007ia-Qt for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:17:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Yvm-00024j-B8; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Yvd-00024O-CW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Yvb-0006DP-P5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P1Yvb-0003pJ-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o916H4H7024036 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:17:04 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61651051A for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:17:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87sk0r2xzc.fsf@tardis.home.perldition.org> (Florian Ragwitz's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:54:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-dmv.com-Metrics: poseidon 1181; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -0.4 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72376 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 30 2010, Florian Ragwitz wrote: > Julien Danjou writes: [...] >> Florian, couldn't you sign the paper? > > While I entirely don't mind copyright assignment, the forth and back via > snail mail isn't at all convenient for me, sorry. You only need to send _one_ snail mail. > While I knew copyright assignment was required for contributing to Emacs > itself as well as various other GNU projects, I didn't realise this was > also required for Gnus. As Gnus is part of Emacs, we have the same rules. > I apologise for any inconvenience I might have caused. Well, it was not your fault, IMHO. Ted, Lars: Please make sure that committers are aware of the most important policies and conventions for Emacs before giving write access (etc/CONTRIBUTE and some files from admin/notes/ in the Emacs repository come to my mind). Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/