Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Robert Dewar]

Richard Kenner wrote:
>> (Minor quibble) As copyright owner of GCC, the FSF is not bound by the
>> conditions of the licence it grants in the same way as licencees are
>> bound. So I don't think this provision in itself would mandate that
>> those who have copyright assignments to the FSF record their changes.
> 
> I was hoping nobody would notice that.  ;-)

Actually I think this is wrong, the FSF holds the copyright
by virtue of a copyright assignment which contains the
guarantee that the software will be distributed under the
GPL (at least that's my recollection of the assignment
document).