Consider adding to Elpa

[vindarel]

Hello,
I really like this package, IMO it would be great if it was part of Emacs. We may have a chance to do so through https://github.com/josteink/emacs-oob-reboot/ (project to enhance the experience by making small changes and suggesting them to the core devs).

And the first step would be to add move-text to Elpa, and thus to fill out the copyright papers (you and the contributors (hello @wigust - tarsius did it)): https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html (don't hesitate to ask questions on the other issue, they'll be able to help).

Are you willing to do so ? Regards.

[jasonm23]

I would be happy to assign copyright, although there are multiple contributors IIRC.

[vindarel]

Great :) I see you and two other contributors (https://github.com/emacsfodder/move-text/graphs/contributors), of which Tarsius did sign the papers (magit,…) and I pinged Wigust.

[wigust]

Hello, Apologies for the late reply. vindarel <notifications@github.com> writes:

Great :) I see you and two other contributors (https://github.com/emacsfodder/move-text/graphs/contributors), of which Tarsius did sign the papers (magit,…) and I pinged Wigust.

I'll sign the papers, no problem. Could you guide me for that, please?

[vindarel]

I've been introduced to the procedure like so: you fill and send the following text to the given address:

Please email the following information to assign@gnu.org, and we
will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes.

Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject
line of the message.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES

[What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]

Emacs

[Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]


[Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
your changes?  Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?]


[For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?]


[What year were you born?]


[Please write your email address here.]


[Please write your postal address here.]

they send you papers that you can send back my email.

For any precise question, please ask on the linked emacs-oob-reboot issue, people there know (better).

Thanks !

• https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html

[jasonm23]

Hi @vindarel I think it's mentioned in the header that this functionality was originally extracted from basic editing toolkit by LazyCat / Andy Stewart.

So it is not possible for me to legitimately assign copyright.

;;; Acknowledgements:
;;
;;  Original v1.x was a Feature extracted from basic-edit-toolkit.el - by Andy Stewart (LazyCat)
;;

[jasonm23]

(Granted the feature has been completely rewritten, but ianal.)

[phillord]

@jasonm23 If the feature has been re-written and Andy Stewart's code is no longer in the current version, you don't need copyright assignment from him. Even if the feature is still there. If his code is still present, either you need copyright assignment from him, or you need to write out the code.

Otherwise @vindarel is correct. You just email that form to assign@gnu.org, and then they mail you back instructions which are specific to your jurisdiction.

[jasonm23]

Ok, I will do a thorough check of the code and reimplement any original work that remains.

[wigust]

Hello, Apologies for the late reply. I finally signed the papers. There was an issue with receiving a reply to request with Gmail. Thanks, Oleg.

[vindarel]

Great ! Well done.

I'll try to create a patch and suggest it to the devs: https://github.com/josteink/emacs-oob-reboot/blob/master/Submitting_Changes_Back_Upstream.md (if you try first, I owe you a beer : ) )

[jasonm23]

Making a note to self. Do this at the weekend

[jasonm23]

@phillord @vindarel - Sorry it took a while but I've now checked the code fully and can verify that the code is a complete rewrite and none of the original code by Andy Stewart / aka Lazy Cat exists.

I'm just filling out the copyright assignment papers now.

[jasonm23]

Geez, I completely forgot about this. I now sent the forms to FSF/GNU

🤦🏽

[jasonm23]

Papers signed.