From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: xr Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:37:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <831s4lsz89.fsf@gnu.org> <834l9fsm0h.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftsyrbna.fsf@gnu.org> <874l9etwzn.fsf@gmx.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="158056"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 04:37:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJSG-000f0D-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:37:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJSF-0005c9-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJS9-0005c3-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJS7-0008FJ-6y; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJS7-0006Ab-1t; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:37:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874l9etwzn.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:06:52 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233154 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Would it suffice (in addition to a copyright assignment, of course) if > the files in GNU ELPA contain this sentence? > This file is part of GNU Emacs. > Currently, some do but many don't. IANAL, but I think that all of the source files in ELPA should have the standard license notice, including saying "part of GNU Emacs" -- if for legal purposes we consider it part of GNU Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)