From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: copyright and `auto-mode-alist' Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:24:26 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87llnww9i6.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075325562 17175 80.91.224.253 (28 Jan 2004 21:32:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 22:32:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlxIb-000884-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:32:37 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlxIb-000317-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:32:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlxG7-0007a8-Fx for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlxEo-0007Gc-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:28:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlxEF-00076e-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlxCc-0006mg-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 2935 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Jan 2004 21:26:22 -0000 Original-Received: from dialin-145-254-129-040.arcor-ip.net (EHLO HERMES) (145.254.129.40) by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 22:26:22 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1497658 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& In-Reply-To: <87llnww9i6.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (Oliver Scholz's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:16:56 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.0.0 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19531 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19531 I recently published a package on gnu.emacs.sources: > ;;; beta-code.el --- converting Greek beta code to Unicode and vice versa > > ;; Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > ;; Author: Oliver Scholz This copyright notice is inserted by the default skeleton in =E2=80=98auto-insert-alist=E2=80=99, because I don't have the ORGANIZATION = environment variable set. Since I do not care whether I or the FSF holds the copyright to Elisp code that wrote, I leave it as it is in all my .el files. Yet somebody contacted my via PM and convinced me that such unilateral assignment is maybe problematical. I have signed papers for future changes to Emacs; but does an Elisp package that is published without explicit intention to be included in Emacs count as a =E2=80=9Cchange to Emacs=E2=80=9D? At the very least: is unilateral assi= gnment possible by simply publishing a package (if it is possible at all, that is)? Probably not, I guess. Therefore I propose to change the default in =E2=80=98auto-insert-alist=E2= =80=99 (defined in =E2=80=98autoinsert=E2=80=99) to use =E2=80=98user-full-name=E2= =80=99 if (getenv "ORGANIZATION") returns nil. Unless at least this sort of unilateral assignment should be o.k. Oliver --=20 9 Pluvi=C3=B4se an 212 de la R=C3=A9volution Libert=C3=A9, Egalit=C3=A9, Fraternit=C3=A9!