From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving octave-mode manual from GNU Octave to GNU Emacs. Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3807544.WvD2aUL9KJ@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385060003 10230 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 18:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 19:53:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNW-0005FS-TI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:53:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNW-0001Bw-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNT-0001Bl-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNR-0002eg-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNR-0002eb-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjZNQ-0001ZZ-Uj; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:53:21 -0500 X-Spook: NSA industrial intelligence Peking MP5K-SD TWA AVN wire X-Ran: TI[[4~&IK4$~6A8bFy^=;_h>8s9>=(*AuPqH+L3)>fq&ccw=@D[>tZUS`J@a]qJD{zT>$R X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165501 Archived-At: R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld wrote: > (Since he is the original author of octave-mode, I assume he has already= =20 > signed the fsf papers.) You can't assume this, because it often seems to have happened in the past that people assigned specific things rather than doing a blanket assignment for "Emacs" (which would still only cover things they explicitly wanted to contribute). And indeed the relevant entry in the copyright.list file only says "Assigns octave.el and future changes.". Does this include any associated manual? I dunno. It probably does, but to be safe, I would suggest you ask assign@gnu for a definitive answer. (Eg it seems slightly odd that the manual isn't in Emacs until now.) > it only seems to contain minor changes from > > * John W. Eaton (has signed the fsf papers for Emacs) > * Rik > * Rafael Laboissiere Sounds like only the last two are potentially an issue. (Though same comment as above for the first one.) If "minor changes" means "less than ~ 15 lines worth of text from each author remains in the latest version of the file", then there's no issue here. (Thanks for working on this, it definitely sounds like a good thing.)