From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:55:30 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87u0203icd.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <85vemtxh7m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fydpkyvx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lkngk8ql.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lkngdj57.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b9lxfg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161240985 707 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2006 06:56:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 08:56:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaRpB-000436-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:56:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaRpB-0004oS-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaRor-0004gf-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaRop-0004dM-TE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaRop-0004d7-Oq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GaRod-00015a-Jc; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.20.248] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1GaRoc0KFd-0004XN; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:55:42 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A7EC14F64A; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:55:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <853b9lxfg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu\, 19 Oct 2006 03\:27\:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38128 Archived-At: David Kastrup 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 (Author does not respond) >> ;; Author: Geoff Foster (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 ;; Author: Geoff Foster ;; Maintainer: Tim Read So it looks to me that they at least intended to give the copyright to the FSF. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany