Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:02:08 -0500
> 
>   > Yes, it's a judgment call.  In this case, given the probability that
>   > Git itself will catch incorrectly formatted author identification, I
>   > see no reason to have this in our docs.
> 
> I see your point.
> 
> But will git catch an _omitted_ author specification?

No, of course not.  It assumes by default that the committer is the
author.

> Maybe we should remind people to specify that.

We already do, in CONTRIBUTE.