Re: Gerrit

Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-14T18:32:04Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:03:32 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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).