From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copyrights to be fixed Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:32:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87lkj85o8w.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <34ps8nirvt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tzxx7etj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170970396 16671 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 21:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 22:33:09 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 1HFGtA-0001wQ-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:33:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFGtA-0005w7-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFGsz-0005vq-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFGsz-0005vQ-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFGsy-00053o-Lo; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l18LWtWn029817; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:32:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l18LWlMS017957; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:32:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (MAIN-TWELVE-SIXTY-THREE.MIT.EDU [18.19.5.63]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l18LWldE007245; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:32:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HFGsp-0001u6-00; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:32:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 08 Feb 2007 14\:46\:01 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:66136 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The files in etc/images are taken from GTK 2.x and Gnome 2.x, as > explained in the README file. The Debian copyrights file said to > refer to the Changelogs for copyright information, so I did that. The > result is > > Copyright 2002 through 2006 > > Copyright owners (not FSF assigned as far as I can tell): > Tuomas Kuosmanen, Rodney Dawes, Jakub Steiner, Alexander Larsson, > Tor Lillqvist, Garrett LeSage, Dennis Cranston, Jody Goldberg, Luca > Ferretti, Mark Finlay, and Marco Pesenti Gritti > > Released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. > > Is it really only version 2? Not sure. The .c and .h files in the same tarballs contain the string "or (at your option) any later version". But these comments (obviously) do not appear in the image files themselves. > If so, we may have to replace them in > order to move Emacs to GPL version 3. If we wait long enough, we can move Emacs to GPL version 4. > Can you tell me how to contact these people so I can ask them to > relicense to GPL version 3 or later? Tuomas Kuosmanen Rodney Dawes Jakub Steiner Alexander Larsson