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Re: "tiny change" + assignment (was: Changes to emacs/man/ChangeLog)
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: "tiny change" + assignment (was: Changes to emacs/man/ChangeLog) |
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Sat, 06 May 2006 00:22:08 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:54:25 +0200
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>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > The FSF is (rightfully, IMHO) picky about having the same
>> > spelling on file and in ChangeLog entries, so I will wait for Richard
>> > to tell what to do in this case.
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>> If we are picky about this, then we have a _huge_ problem!
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>> Just look at the authors-aliases list in lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el ...
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> The way I understand it, the aliases don't matter. What matters is
> that the log entries use the _legal_ name of the contributor, which is
> the name stated in the papers he/she signed.
The aliases are there because the ChangeLogs and other files use
those _different_ names for authors. I'm pretty sure that only one
of those names match the one on file.
IANAL either.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
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