There are a whole bunch of people who claim copyright on those files; their
names are listed in the files' headers. I'll note that when I requested
copyright assignment, I alerted the clerk that I was using these libraries.
The plugin doesn't work without them.

I could probably externalize those files into an "npm" package and instruct
users to install a separate executable to run the JavaScript portion of the
plugin. But I'd much rather just include them in the package, because then
it "works out-of-the-box".

As for ert-async, what would be our course of action if he does not agree?
Will we add a copyright exception, or will I not be able to include the
file in the repo?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > On the "Copyright (C) 2014 Johan Andersson", are you suggesting I change
> > the copyright notice in ert-async.el myself, or that I should contact the
> > author and tell him to change it?
>
> Asking him is the right way.  The question to ask is whether he wants to
> contribute this code to Emacs and/or GNU ELPA: if he does, then that
> means his copyright assignment does cover this file and so that means
> that the "Copyright (C) 2014 Johan Andersson" should be changed to
> "Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc".
>
> Of course, you want to keep his name as an "Author:" and/or "Maintainer:".
>
> > context-coloring/languages/javascript/libraries/ also includes 3
> JavaScript
> > libraries with their own copyright notices.  These appear to be licensed
> > under the FreeBSD license.  Should they be handled specially?
>
> The problem is not just the license but the copyright.  Who owns the
> copyright to those files?
>
>
>         Stefan
>