From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: legal status of progmodes/sym-comp.el Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:36:20 +0000 Message-ID: <874pbvp75n.fsf@liv.ac.uk> References: <3h7igyw31a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8763wiw2sx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x1ckc1v.fsf@liv.ac.uk> <87r6f4kaab.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204072577 28106 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 00:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 01:36:42 2008 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 1JUAHp-0001jA-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:36:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUAHJ-00081K-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:36:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUAGu-0007sU-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUAGs-0007ro-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUAGs-0007rj-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:35:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mxa.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.59]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUAGs-00051D-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:35:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhuba.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.36]) by mxa.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUAGr-0000gg-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:35:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mailhuba.liv.ac.uk) by mailhuba.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1JUAGr-00012r-Hr; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:35:41 +0000 Original-Received: from pc102091.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.102.91] helo=albion) by mailhuba.liv.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1JUAGr-00012o-HC; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:35:41 +0000 Original-Received: from dlove by albion with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JUAHU-000738-5o; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:36:20 +0000 X-Draft-From: ("nnimap+imap.liv.ac.uk:Misc" 267) In-Reply-To: <87r6f4kaab.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:26:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90552 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: >> Indeed, in general, but that was a mistake. You can use the sym-comp >> code if it's now acceptable for some reason. > > Okay. Thanks for the clarification! I should have said that one reason you can't -- or, at least, couldn't -- just take even assigned code into Emacs is that it may not be covered by employer disclaimer, if that still makes any difference. (I don't understand the lawyer's comments on the issues that worried me.) That code is old enough not to be a problem, though. However, there's no point unless it's merged back into lisp.el. If you read the commentary, the whole point is to provide one of the missing abstractions over major mode features.