Re: Emacs CLA requirement

[Juri Linkov]

>> Even though Magit doesn't require copyright assignments,
>> Magit is still lagging behind vc-mode feature-wise:
>> for example, Magic lacks such features as diff syntax
>> highlighting supported by vc-mode.
>
> `diff-font-lock-syntax' is nice, but I feel it's silly to refer to
> Magit as "lagging behind" -- while VC has features which Magit does
> not, Magit has a rich set of features not found in VC, so you might as
> well add that vc-mode is lagging behind Magit.  (I doubt that many of
> Magit's users feel that it is lagging behind anything else, tbh.)

That's true, but still it's a counterexample to the claims that
copyright assignments is the major factor that hinders the development.