Re: [Erc-help] erc TODO and Re: fix for erc-fill-variable

[Alex S. <al...@em...>]

Yes, its ERC assignment day again!  :)

-- Alex "ERC Scroll Keeper" 
   aka kensanata on #emacs

Mario Lang <ml...@de...> writes:

> Peter Solodov <pe...@al...> writes:
>
>> I have a little fix which will take time-stamp into account when
>> filling buffer. Patch for erc-fill.el is attached. 
> Thanks, please note that it is slightly broken, the first line
> can stick out on the right side if fill-column is set like 78 or so.
>
>> Let me know it's good or not.
> Keep up hacking, but please try to make generic soltuions.
> I am not really liking the way this works currently, i.e.,
> erc-fill has a hardcoded dependency on how erc-stamp works.
> This normally leads to a maintainance nightmare.

I don't remember seing Peter Solodov's original mail.  I assume that
his patch covers 10 lines or more.  So Peter, are you willing to
assign the copyright for your patch to the FSF?  We are trying to get
ERC into Emacs, and so this is (unfortunately) a requirement...  :(

This is what I send people when we include their patches; I hope it is
not too much of a hassle for you.

Alex.

 From: Alex Schroeder <al...@em...>
 Subject: ERC copyright assignment to the FSF

If you contributed more than 10 lines of code to ERC, I would like to
ask you to assign your copyright to the FSF.  Our goal is to add ERC
to Emacs.  I have appended two files with instructions on how to
proceed.  The first of them covers all your past changes, the second
convers past and future changes to ERC.  I assume that most people
will use the second form.

What happens is this:  You will need to fill out the form and mail it
to as...@gn....  They will send you a document by snail mail, which
you sign and snail mail back to them.  After a while your name appears
in the coprights.list file on the gnu servers, and from then on we're
on the safe side.

If you changed more than erc.el, the main file, please add to the list
of files you changed or added.  This is just something the FSF has in
their forms, once you start contributing more, there is no need to
somehow update that list.

Alex.

DOCUMENT #1 FOR PAST CHANGES
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Please email the following information to as...@gn..., and we will
send you the assignment form that covers the changes you have already
written.  That form will cover subsequent corrections to those
changes, but it will not cover other unrelated future changes to the
same program.
 
Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject line of the message.
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REQUEST:  SEND FORM FOR CHANGES ALREADY MADE

[What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]

ERC

[Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]


[Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
your changes?  Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]


[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]


[What year were you born?]


[Please write your email address here.]


[Please write your postal address here.]





[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
so far?]

erc.el






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DOCUMENT #2 FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES
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Please email the following information to as...@gn..., and we
will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes.

Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject
line of the message.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES

[What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]

ERC

[Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]


[Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
your changes?  Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]


[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]


[What year were you born?]


[Please write your email address here.]


[Please write your postal address here.]





[Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written
so far?]

erc.el








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