>>> "EL" == Eric Ludlam writes: >> Very good point. Eric Ludlam who single handed maintained matlab-mode >> for almost 2 decades is still working for mathworks told me (if I >> remember correctly) that he was approached by some mathwork officials >> discussing the matters with him. >> >> So he should know all the details, I put him on the CC just in case. >> >> @Eric could you provide us, or RMS with some details of this copyright >> issue, please > Hi, > MathWorks has had developers contribute to other GNU projects in the > past (such as my own contributions to Emacs for projects unrelated to > MATLAB) so I will just need to get the standard  GNU form for myself > and John C. signed to make this official.  I hadn't worried about it > yet because it was unclear if we could overcome the other hurdles. To be honest, I still have to finish the issue check-all-patches. I propose to add a branch in our repository with a documentation explaining the state of art of these patches for somebody of the FSF to check and give its ok. I am optimistic, but don't want to shout victory too early. In any case I recommend that you both sign the papers.