From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-tty branch status (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:50 +0200 Message-ID: <85abwah3r9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2wmz0iriyj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fy65k6eh.fsf@red-bean.com> <853b25lk43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sla5iqhs.fsf@red-bean.com> <85sla5k4py.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4642C8C9.5050804@gnu.org> <86tzul15ky.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4642E388.9010503@gnu.org> <4644F4F9.9090608@lorentey.hu> <8er6pmisfx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87lkfuleqg.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178956764 27721 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2007 07:59:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 07:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 09:59:22 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 1HmmVd-0004be-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:59:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmmd8-0006iR-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmmcf-0006Yp-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmmce-0006YL-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hmmcd-0006YF-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmmV7-0004Yv-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 03:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83C81FD0A5; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB64828EBD4; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-053-057.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.53.57]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8AB30A919; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1346E1C27956; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:58:51 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87lkfuleqg.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo's message of "Sat\, 12 May 2007 09\:48\:07 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:70881 Archived-At: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo writes: > Glenn Morris writes: > >> Karoly Lorentey wrote: >> >>> Dan Nicolaescu, Han Boetes and Kalle Olavi Niemitalo helped by >>> submitting short patches. >> >> FYI, the last two don't have (relevant) assignments AFAICS, so they >> would need to sign papers if they made non-trivial contributions. > > Grepping from my mail archive, my contributions seem to have been > the following. > > 2005-08-10 bug report, no patch > 2006-05-03 bug report, no patch > 2006-05-22 bug report, no patch > 2006-07-23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.multi-tty/607 > patch changed all get_named_tty (NULL) calls to > get_named_tty ("/dev/tty"). May be trivial. Applied in > lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-579. It is a mechanical change without room for creative expression (which is what copyright protects). Should not require a copyright assignment unless you wrote a particularly expressive ChangeLog entry. But the latter can be replaced easily by a stock one. > 2006-07-25 reference to the earlier patch > 2006-11-25 bug report, no patch; this bug may still exist > > I am unwilling to assign copyright. Which sounds a bit harsh. However, if your above list is complete, it would not seem to cause a problem in the current situation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum