From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: etags licence? Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:53:45 +0200 Message-ID: <18128.42217.337257.871910@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188078856 5683 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2007 21:54:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti , emacs@gentoo.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 23:54:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IP3a8-0003hF-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:54:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IP3a8-0007RF-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IP3a3-0007OV-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IP3Zz-0007Ja-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IP3Zz-0007JS-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.132.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IP3Zp-0006xG-VU; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by mail.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l7PLrj0E087364; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:53:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de) Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l7PLrjCS024121; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l7PLrja6024115; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:53:45 +0200 X-Mailer: VM 8.0.1-465 under Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77161 Archived-At: I just discovered that the etags.c included with Emacs 22 is now dual-licenced BSD/GPL, while up to Emacs 21.4 it was GPL only. As a consequence, this would mean that Gentoo has to mark its Emacs packages with "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" as licence info. Some quick web search reveals that the ctags source was posted at least two times to net.sources and mod.sources in 1984/85, without any copyright statement. (This version clearly shows similarities to the etc/etags.c included in Emacs 16.56.) I also found a posting by Ken Arnold from 1985 that states "The source to ctags is public domain": So I wonder if the BSD licensing for etags is correct? Ulrich