Re: lisp/progmodes/idlw-help.el copyright

[JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu>]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:

>
> [re-sending due to some formatting weirdness with first attempt,  
> sorry]
>
> JD Smith wrote:
>
>> We are the same.
>
> Thanks for confirming!
>
> Maybe a quick mail to assign@gnu.org asking them to add to the
> copyright file the email address you use for Emacs changes would be
> useful?

Will do.

>> issue, and idlw-help.el was moved in. Do I need to do something to
>> update my copyright assignment for idlw*.el? Carsten no longer
>> maintains it.
>
> I was confused by the fact that your assignment only seems to mention
> vc:
>
>     EMACS   John-David T. Smith     Us      1973    2001-06-23
>     Assigns past and future changes.(vc.el, vc-cvs.el)
>     jdsmith@alum.mit.edu
>
> But I probably just misunderstand the file. RMS seems to say there is
> no problem.

Carsten originally submitted IDLWAVE and assigned its copyright, I  
took over maintenance later (and added idlw-help), years after I had  
submitted some modest improvements to VC.  Probably my "past and  
future changes" statement should indicate IDLWAVE as well.