From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gsettings.m4 copyright Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83y23wbuix.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k0fhc75r.fsf@gnu.org> <87y23xdlkm.fsf@yahoo.com> <83fsq5c6qs.fsf@gnu.org> <20220103.223950.285333486999523743.masm@luna.pink.masm11.me> <83a6gcdha6.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13922"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, masm+emacs@masm11.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 18:27:22 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n4R7C-0003Ru-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43422 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4R7A-0002vb-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4R64-00028b-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:26:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=56596 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4R62-00067b-Eh; Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:26:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Hka9J7BA2eFUCT5/ioS8oNhzkmFE5bn1EmM89sos3Ig=; b=I5MqpL4ljYnL 3CN0mdJrwiuEGB/LAATYMlt1Pmzq+RabYcFhW6h1AJBQkLi88/Hmrndx4Hhm96D+j8mhv9qMP7UrS DenjwW0UYZ4uIXXPXR3ghIvJh2QTT24+2uLdSp7kk3aAtx0OgFrbPD4LMc6inKUxjzPQZI4S+H7eg 1F8wOKrDW61AznQU4sXhAa9IXrekLhswO/1QGcyVGW+xMSfYobQD75KYOg2N7ILgQGcD4GPNvI1me S4Xmfsv1ewGyU3Zll94bNRr9FgWxsMks4yFEdCLUFGFfOhm+NSIz0Z9IDUASw76H2DJEXDhDG4LHn 77gMwUNjjsK/1OmtU/bO7A==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3113 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4R62-0002RS-AO; Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:26:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:03:13 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:284075 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Yuuki Harano , luangruo@yahoo.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:03:13 -0500 > > >> > Jeff and Yuuki, would you please tell us how you got this file and who > >> > has the copyright to its code? > >> I copied /usr/share/aclocal/gsettings.m4 in my PC. > > That file is installed when you install Glib, so you basically copied > > it from Glib without their permission. > > Since it's under the LGPL we do have their permission. I guess you mean we don't _need_ their permission. Except that in Emacs (and other projects that care about attribution and copyright assignments), we do. > > At this point, I think we should consider removing the file and > > rewriting the tests it performs in configure.ac, in as different a > > form from gsettings.m4 as possible. Is that feasible? > > Is there a specific problem with the file being LGPL? That's not the problem I'm worried about.