From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 53388 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2019 18:32:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 53376 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2019 18:32:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=distribute, our, person X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:32:02 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iK58Q-00024P-R5; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:32:00 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2152 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iK58O-0008R7-BZ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:31:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:32:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83d0ezi3fr.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Tom Tromey CC: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <87ftjvtdaj.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:03:32 -0600) Subject: Re: Gerrit References: <20191013045218.3261363-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> <1c1f820fa507243fd7a2096ec3eb2454@polymtl.ca> <83r23fie80.fsf@gnu.org> <83k197i74c.fsf@gnu.org> <8c18a33556daaad6d35a0d2a4f987899@polymtl.ca> <83h84bi540.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftjvtdaj.fsf@tromey.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-10/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:03:32 -0600 > > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> The way I see it is that it's not really different than that person > >> posting a patch with the same content on the mailing list. It's the > >> same content, just a different format. > > Eli> Not exactly: having the code in a branch of our repository (again, > Eli> assuming it can be regarded as "ours") means we are redistributing it, > Eli> whereas having it in an email does not. > > But the email is all archived, so I still don't see the distinction. Anyone can send email to us, and we cannot be responsible for what they send. By contrast, having it in our repository is tantamount to redistributing it, because repositories are nowadays treated as a means to distribute code (and some projects, like Gnulib, have no other means).