From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Serghei <egrep@protonmail.ch>
Cc: GNU Emacs Developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The right way to reuse code from another project
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:39:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr1xmhacm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yMK-dFcKebYk0-WPQJfB1_IZPNOrL4W-A2sPkiYv3vdFRRjy5bz9jiQ1jhb-rM2_aj_OYSg2e5zCOeh929NucY6oshyC46EL9m0zZ7QA61E=@protonmail.ch> (Serghei's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:04:00 +0000")
> I would like to reuse some test helpers in bnf-mode [1] initially
> created by lua-mode [2] authors. So I'm interested in the proper
> way mention authorship and copyright notice. Both modes are
> distributed under GNU GPL. Could someone advice me the right way
> to include those helpers in bnf-mode.
The proper way is:
- find out who are the authors are (e.g. with `vc-region-history`).
- check whether they have signed the copyright paperwork.
- if they have not and the code is non-trivial, ask them to sign the paperwork.
[ in this case, I suspect they all already signed. ]
- ask them if they're OK to contribute that code to your GNU ELPA
package and hence consider that code as covered yb their copyright assignment.
- add their names to the `Author:` if you think the code is significant
enough for that.
The copyright line shouldn't need any changing since their paperwork
assigns the copyright to the FSF anyway.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-20 20:04 The right way to reuse code from another project Serghei
2020-03-20 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-21 7:14 ` Serghei
2020-03-21 13:14 ` Serghei
2020-03-21 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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