Re: [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Could you comment on this offer to put the code into public domain?
> Is this possible and/or acceptable for Emacs?

Not Stefan, but I'm afraid simply stating "this is in the public domain"
is not enough. We require a disclaimer to be filed with FSF records via
their standard process. It's a simple procedure that is really not a lot
of work (I think it can be done entirely electronically if in the USA).
It's no less work than completing a copyright assignment, though, so if
that is the only motivation then it is better to do an assignment. In
fact it is more work, because it has to be done for every change,
whereas an assignment is normally a one-time thing for "past and future
changes".

So if the only objection to doing an assignment was a practical one,
then I hope you will reconsider. It's really easy to do. If it's an
objection on principal then I am afraid we cannot use your
contributions.

For more details, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html.
gnu-misc-discuss is probably the place to discuss it.