From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r325: Fix the copyright section to point out that it's not part of Emacs. Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:26:32 +0900 Message-ID: <878v8owugn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87licoddkg.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356283607 1161 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2012 17:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 18:27:02 2012 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 1TmpKH-0003g5-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:27:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmpK3-00058N-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmpJz-00058F-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmpJw-0000QA-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:26:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:41954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmpJv-0000Oe-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AAD9708E2; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:26:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C8C71A323D; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:26:32 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:155819 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > Oh, ok. I got an email from somebody that wondered whether it was > > correct to say "part of Emacs" for stuff that, er, isn't distributed > > with Emacs, so I changed it. I'll revert the change. > > You can also circumvent the whole issue and not say that it's part nor > say that it's not part. That's a terrible idea. It's bad enough if it's not part of Emacs; but at least people know that they have to do more paperwork. If it *is* part of Emacs, then people who have papers on file for Emacs can contribute freely. Why obfuscate that? You also might want to check with the lawyers to see if that would adversely affect the FSF's ability to defend its position that copyleft extends across linkage even if the linked files aren't distributed with the derived code (ie, because the contention is that they still constitute a single work). Probably not, but it's unpredictable what a real lawyer will say.... IANAL-ly y'rs,