Access to the copyright assignment file

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 09/26/2017 03:45 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2017 03:01 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> Please read the notice at the top of the file.
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________        
>> *Privacy Notice*
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The FSF asks that for the privacy of the developers listed herein, you
>> not reproduce this list, in whole or in part, anywhere. 
>>
>> Should you need to mention individuals in this file in other contexts,
>> please do so only with a name and an email address - such as may be found 
>> in the ChangeLogs for the relevant programs.
>>
> 
> Ahh, I don't have access to that file so I can't read that notice :)  I
> assume that the file has more information than just the name and email
> address (and possibly organization name in case of blanket assignments)
> of individuals.  It might not be a violation of privacy to maintain a
> list of current contributors publicly, but that will result in a number
> of other problems, so I guess there's no easy solution to this.

The file contains a lot of personal information, and making it public
would be a change in the way the information is shared, and that has
a lot of complex consequences.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.