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: [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1354994383.8564.YahooMailClassic@web141106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87txrd7pi2.fsf@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356212648 23357 80.91.229.3 (22 Dec 2012 21:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kelly Dean , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 22 22:44:23 2012 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 1TmWrk-0004OV-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:44:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmWrW-0003WU-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:44:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmWrO-0003W2-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmWrH-0002xT-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:43:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmWrH-0002xP-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:43:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmWrG-0000DK-DP; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:43:50 -0500 X-Spook: 22nd SAS terrorist fissionable enigma mindwar Marxist X-Ran: ?"B?YV'~wk8~+2BppUl.6I4px{??thiwLlD`_tR!D\w-L%OpK6YI!.&!+-Xp/;sYj/e^u; X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87txrd7pi2.fsf@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:20:37 -0100") 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:155783 Archived-At: 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.