Emacs and Magit

Posted Jul 12, 2017 6:38 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Emacs and Magit

I'm a lifelong Vim user, but I hope they resolve this without fuss. Everyone wins; Emacs gets to bundle it, the users can obtain it with less hassle, the authors gain the FSF's clout to enforce their license if it's ever needed, and the rest of the world maybe gets to see a few less people using CVS. :-)

OOC, how much paperwork does the FSF require for copyright assignment these days? Would they accept statements signed with the same GPG key as the code being turned over, or do they only take dead trees via snail mail?

Emacs and Magit

Posted Jul 12, 2017 12:08 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

> OOC, how much paperwork does the FSF require for copyright assignment these days?

You can provide scanned, signed paperwork via email for contributors for all countries these days (this has been available to U.S. contributors for a while now, and from some other specific countries like Germany for a shorter time, but now is available to everyone). You don't need to use snail mail.

See https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-now-offering-pape...

Emacs and Magit

Posted Jul 12, 2017 12:53 UTC (Wed) by kushal (subscriber, #50806) [Link] (2 responses)

>I'm a lifelong Vim user, but I hope they resolve this without fuss. Everyone wins; Emacs gets to bundle it, the users can obtain it with less hassle, the authors gain the FSF's clout to enforce their license if it's ever needed, and the rest of the world maybe gets to see a few less people using CVS.

16 years Vim user this side, converted to Emacs and magit just over a week. Finding the whole thing amazing. https://kushaldas.in/posts/switching-to-emacs-land.html is what I experienced in the first one week.

Emacs and Magit

Posted Feb 11, 2018 22:09 UTC (Sun) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (1 responses)

Of course, vim users should use fugitive, a Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal :) https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

Emacs and Magit

Posted Mar 15, 2019 2:00 UTC (Fri) by bb010g (guest, #130946) [Link]

I'd also highly recommend checking out gina.vim. https://github.com/lambdalisue/gina.vim

Emacs and Magit

Posted Jul 13, 2017 15:26 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

http://spacemacs.org/ could be worth your attention.