Re: add emms to ELPA

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Yoni Rabkin writes:

 > Could there have been significant commits in the past from people who
 > were not included in the AUTHORS file? Perhaps, but I can't think of an
 > trustworthy way of figure out if this is the case.

I think the only way that the FSF's lawyers will trust is to track
down all the committers according to the VCS and read all the commit
messages for "patch by" attributions, as well as all change logs if
you keep a change log separate from the VCS lot.  IANAL and I'm not
RMS, either, but since you have that information available, I would
expect them (and any judge/jury that might get involved) to consider
reading the logs to be due diligence.

It's really not that much work, even if you have to do it for the
whole of Emacs instead of just one package.  The problem of course is
that it's terribly tedious, even for a small project.