From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: zn@mbf.nifty.com, Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>,
Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ruby-mode in emacs
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 21:45:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cpod6sbjuj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcck6c6i.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 26 May 2008 16:30:13 -0400")
Chong Yidong wrote:
> Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> writes:
>
>> Actually, the Ruby developers have already offered it to be included in
>> Emacs: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00051.html
>> It looks like there are a few things that still need to be done
>> according to Richard
>
> Indeed. The process, unfortunately, seems to have stalled. I just
> contacted the developers, and hopefully we can speed this process
> through.
Here's the text of the last email I sent, back in November. I had no
reply. The process stalled due to two problems the Ruby developers
had. I hope you have better luck. (I no longer have time to do the
comments.)
Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote (on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 at 18:02 +0900):
> * there were other contributers in past, but we can't contact them
> now.
Richard Stallman said that if the two of you are willing to sign
assignments, we can ask a lawyer whether we need to worry about
unknown authors. Can you estimate how much code these other
contributors wrote (in total, and per author)?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00364.html
> * detail comment for all functions is tough.
I would be willing to do all this work, if the legal issues can be
sorted out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 17:44 Ruby-mode in emacs Paul R
2008-05-26 20:17 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-05-26 20:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-27 1:45 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-05-27 4:56 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-05-27 7:53 ` Paul R
2008-05-26 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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