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Re: One-click copyright assignments?
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: One-click copyright assignments? |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:26:21 -0400 |
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On 2017-03-12 13:44, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> - turn the initial form into a web-form.
Indeed, this should be easy.
> - make it so the web-form doesn't send an email to address@hidden
> (i.e. to Donald who's already busy enough) but should instead
> automatically return the appropriate PDF. I understand that in some
> cases, a human might be needed, but we should be able to arrange for
> the web-form to cover 99% of the needs.
That should be easy too :)
> Just doing that would be a significant improvement I think. The user
> can then immediately get the PDF, and sign it without any delay.
> It would still have the delay to receive the signed PDF, check it,
> etc... which involves a human (Donald again, AFAIK), but: one step at
> a time.
Must it? Can't the PGP signature on the PDF be manually validated?
(To be clear: I'm happy to contribute some code to make this happen, if needed)
> This said, this is an FSF-issue, not specific to Emacs, so it would be
> better to discuss it elsewhere.
Can you indicate what the proper mailing list would be (noting that there is
significant incentive for Emacs as a project to fix this issue, since we have a
very large number of people writing ELisp code but not contributing it to Emacs
— in part, I'm sure, due to copyright-related hurdles).
Cheers,
Clément.
Re: One-click copyright assignments?, Richard Stallman, 2017/03/13