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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exceptions for certain files in ELPA?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:56:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlgew7q1p.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0e9f7990-6130-0324-7901-bcdfd47b4810@yandex.ru

> 1. mmm-rpm.el. It's ~20 lines, and you could consider its contents to be
> "configuration" instead of a program. Nevertheless, it's all been written by
> the same guy who never done copyright assignment, so it doesn't seem fair to
> write "Copyright by Free Software Foundation" on top of it.

This can be counted as "trivial" enough not to require copyright
paperwork, indeed.

> 2. mmm-noweb.el. It's much bigger, and reportedly still used by some
> people. Unfortunately, the author has passed away 7 years ago, so no real
> chance of copyright assignment.
>
> They are not very essential (we could release one or both separately), but
> have them to be exceptions would make my life simpler.

I wouldn't mind making an exception for this one.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 21:47 Exceptions for certain files in ELPA? Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-03-13  4:36   ` Herring, Davis
2018-03-13  7:51     ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 22:17       ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-13 22:47         ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 23:09           ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-14 14:05             ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-14 16:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-14 23:10                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-03-14 21:02               ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-15  0:04               ` John Wiegley
2018-03-13  8:08   ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-03-13 13:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-13 14:42       ` Dmitry Gutov

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