Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

>
>> Furthermore I'm interested whether the guys in the snippet below
>> have signed legal papers for the FSF (as is claimed in a certain
>> lisp file), I'm using and reworking their code.  Do you know how I
>> could get this piece of information in an unbureaucratic way?
>>
>> ;; This file containes code from ansys-mod.el.
>> ;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> ;; Author: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz> (Author does not respond)
>> ;; Author: Geoff Foster <fosterg@fp.co.nz> (Address unreachable,
>> ;;   Dieter Wilhelm 2006-03-08)
>
> I don't see an assignment from either person in the copyright
> assignment file accessible by GNU maintainers.

Gosh, you never sleep, do you?

>
> Where did you get the claim?

There is an Emacs mode out there for the Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
program Ansys, the file is  called ansys-mode.el and there it's
written:

;;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz>
;; Author: Geoff Foster <fosterg@fp.co.nz>
;; Maintainer: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz>

So it looks to me that they at least intended to give the copyright to
the FSF. 

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany