Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22

[Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>]

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On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    It's not worth harping on, but I'm pretty sure that the FSF has had
>    copyright assignments for python-mode.el from all the main  
> developers
>    for some time now.
>
> Someone said Kyle Jones was a developer of it, and we don't have  
> papers
> from him for this.  If you tell us the list of developers
> we can see who we do or don't have papers from.

I don't remember Kyle ever having touched it.  Tim Peters was the  
original author of python-mode.el.  Other than that, I know Ken, Skip,  
and myself have hacked on it.  Grep'ing on the Subversion history, it  
looks like Ed Loper also checked stuff in.  I'm sure there's history  
that predates the svn logs, but I can't think of who else touched the  
file.

>      If the rest of the
>    Python community is okay with moving python-mode.el out of the  
> Python
>    Subversion repository, I'd have no problem GPL'ing it and hosting  
> its
>    development on e.g. Launchpad.
>
> If we can get the necessary papers, let's put it in Emacs and
> develop it there.

Two problems with that: I'd really like to develop the code with  
Bazaar, and I want to make sure that we can still support XEmacs.

- -Barry

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