License statement as a prerequisite for gerrit account

[John]

Would it be possible to script? Looping over messages in the mailing
list would not be hard to script, finding bugzilla tickets from a
corresponding email that the script has not modified yet would not be
hard, but it might be tricky to identify that a given message /is/ a
valid license statement.

If you could figure that out, though, having the bot/script update
tickets with a link to the assignee's license statement would make this
much less of an issue, in my opinion.

On 3/29/21 9:24 AM, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday, 2021-03-28 02:36:49 -0700, julien2412 wrote:
>
>> I noticed several times some patches on gerrit for which authors hadn't send
>> yet their license statement.
>> Of course when asking, the license statement is provided but to avoid to
>> miss it and risk some legal problem, thought it could be relevant to make
>> license statement as prerequisite for a gerrit account.
> Maybe not a prerequisite for a gerrit account (contributors want that
> quickly to push a change and you don't want their hard disk die before
> ;-), but a prerequisite for being able to merge a change. Often enough
> when I spot a new name at a change I look up the dev statement and if
> not found mention that during review, but I'm also guilty not thinking
> of or asking only after merging.
>
>    Eike
>
>
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