From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Legal question on copyright notices Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:06:05 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151849191 8850 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2006 14:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Reiner.Steib@gmx.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 02 16:06:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx2ah-0004zv-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx2ah-0004sO-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx2aU-0004qB-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx2aR-0004oK-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx2aR-0004oH-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.141.58.119] (helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fx2nf-0003mi-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdslcj021.osnanet.de [89.166.137.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k62E63S5022438; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:06:03 +0200 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1Fx2aL-0004mS-7I; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:06:05 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56370 Archived-At: Hi *, I'm working on getting nnir.el (which provides some search functionality based on local search engines like swish-e for gnus) in the gnus main distribution, and by that a regular part the Emacs, too. Part of the task is to transfer the copyright to the fsf, which is basically no problem, as all contributors have signed papers. My question is, how will the copyright notices in the file have to look? By now there are copyright notices of the main contributors scattered all over the file. Can they be substituted by one copyright notice of the fsf, like: ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, ;; 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. which would mean to change the copyright to the fsf retroactively. Or must they be retained, in which case I would move them all to the head of the file and at the fsf copyright to the end of them, like: ;; Copyright (C) 1998 Kai Gro=DFjohann ;; Copyright (C) 1998 Simon Josefsson . ;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Christoph Conrad . ;; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Which is the right way to do this? cheers sascha --=20 Sascha Wilde "Unix was the first OS where you could carry the media and system documentation around in a briefcase. This was fixed in BSD4.2."