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Re: Copyright verification service
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Copyright verification service |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2020 20:29:10 -0400 |
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On 25/05/2020 03.58, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I've toyed with this idea myself for a while.
>
> I don't know if it is a good idea for the GNU project in general, but
> as someone who sometimes need to check the copyright status of some
> contributors for Org/Emacs, the current setup is fine for me.
>
> Although, I don't think authentication would be optional as we should
> by default assume that the list of signed contributors should be kept
> private, shouldn't we?
The API idea was discussed in depth two weeks ago, as part of the very long
thread on packages not getting included in ELPA; see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01909.html. The
conclusion was that email addresses are not private, since they appear in
commits anyway. rms said he would talk to the FSF sysadmins to see if
something was feasible.
Clément.