From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to deal with GPL paper when the contributer can not contact with? Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:32:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2ad5cc9d.114d.174c2e75e20.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tumashu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 06:33:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1tS-0007Wz-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:33:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1tR-0001X4-Uf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1sl-00017j-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1sk-0003i1-Ps; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1sj-0002jw-Tb; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:32:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2ad5cc9d.114d.174c2e75e20.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> (message from tumashu on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:36:16 +0800 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256441 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. ]]] > 2. his patchs are rewrite ivy.el and swiper.el's exist functions, > so many code of his patch come from ivy.el and swiper.el, ivy.el > and swiper.el are gnu-elpa packages. > How should I do? wait or elimit his commit? How many of those lines contain code he wrote? There is no need to count the code that he left unchanged. If what he wrote is short, and not crucial, then you can ignore the copyright issue for that. Or you can rewrite the code some other way. It sounds like that won't be a lot of work. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)