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: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:59:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1969908.JsWpaORN6d@descartes> References: <3807544.WvD2aUL9KJ@descartes> <2912237.Wknv7PcOxl@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 1385085594 3128 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 01:59:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 02:59:58 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 1Vjg2I-0000YW-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:59:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjg2H-0007O3-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:59:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjg28-0007Ma-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:59:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjg20-00079K-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:51590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjg20-000796-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1127D2D504; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:59:39 +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 fNG+HxQcgAQR; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:59:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (chello080108246092.7.14.vie.surfer.at [80.108.246.92]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60D6528C79; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:59:37 +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:165521 Archived-At: On Thursday 21 November 2013 20:38:08 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> It currently says "Copyright (C) 1996-2013 Kurt Hornik". I have > >> contacted > >> him and he agreed to change the copyright to the FSF. What is the= > >> correct > >> procedure for this? >=20 > The one you're following. Indeed Kurt's changes are already covered.= He confirmed his willingness to change the copyright in a private e-mai= l. I=20 guess that's not enough to simply change it and commit it to Emacs. Do= es he=20 have to sign additional papers or is it enough if he makes a public sta= tement=20 or contributes the diff? > For Rik's changes, you might like to take a closer look at them, in c= ase > some of his later changes supersede text he had contributed in earlie= r > changes, or have been superseded by other text. Or in case some of t= he > changes are "re-fill" (a pretty common occurrence in such text files)= . >=20 > But if he can be found and is willing to assign his copyright, it's e= ven > better, I've contacted him. Most of his changes are whitespace fixes. I've co= unted=20 only 9 line changes which change actual content. Of which at least 4 a= re no=20 longer in my updated version. So maybe an assignment isn't even needed= ? Regards, R=C3=BCdiger