From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving octave-mode manual from GNU Octave to GNU Emacs. Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1431832.3U5aIbyZuB@descartes> References: <3807544.WvD2aUL9KJ@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385065006 5070 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 20:16:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 21:16:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjagE-0005Av-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjagE-0004LZ-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjag7-0004LS-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjag3-0002S0-2x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:45585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjag2-0002Ro-TU; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A1C2D4F6; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ptmx.org Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ptmx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hbpeCtPbjXeE; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (chello080108246092.7.14.vie.surfer.at [80.108.246.92]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BD82A2D40C; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:34 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.11.2 (Linux/3.11.0-12-generic; KDE/4.11.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.28.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165505 Archived-At: Hello Glenn, On Thursday 21 November 2013 13:53:20 Glenn Morris wrote: > You can't assume this, because it often seems to have happened in the= > past that people assigned specific things rather than doing a blanket= > assignment for "Emacs" (which would still only cover things they > explicitly wanted to contribute). And indeed the relevant entry in th= e > copyright.list file only says "Assigns octave.el and future changes."= . > Does this include any associated manual? I dunno. It probably does, b= ut > to be safe, I would suggest you ask assign@gnu for a definitive answe= r. Isn't fsf-records@gnu the address for such questions? > (Eg it seems slightly odd that the manual isn't in Emacs until now.) I've asked John W. Eaton (the GNU Octave maintainer) if there was a rea= son why=20 the manual wasn't moved to Emacs and he couldn't think of any. > Sounds like only the last two are potentially an issue. > (Though same comment as above for the first one.) > If "minor changes" means "less than ~ 15 lines worth of text from eac= h > author remains in the latest version of the file", then there's no is= sue > here. That's the change contributed by Rafael. http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a441d6681364#l5.1 It changes 3 lines. Rik seems to have contributed more than 15 lines though. # hg churn -t '{author}' doc/interpreter/emacs.txi jwe 595 Rik 34 Rik 14 John W. Eaton 13 Rik 8 (56 lines) I'll contact him to check if he has signed the fsf papers or is willing= to do=20 so. Regards, R=C3=BCdiger