Re: Moving octave-mode manual from GNU Octave to GNU Emacs.

["Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>]

Hello Glenn,

On Thursday 21 November 2013 13:53:20 Glenn Morris wrote:
> You can't assume this, because it often seems to have happened in the
> past that people assigned specific things rather than doing a blanket
> assignment for "Emacs" (which would still only cover things they
> explicitly wanted to contribute). And indeed the relevant entry in the
> copyright.list file only says "Assigns octave.el and future changes.".
> Does this include any associated manual? I dunno. It probably does, but
> to be safe, I would suggest you ask assign@gnu for a definitive answer.

Isn't fsf-records@gnu the address for such questions?

> (Eg it seems slightly odd that the manual isn't in Emacs until now.)

I've asked John W. Eaton (the GNU Octave maintainer) if there was a reason why 
the manual wasn't moved to Emacs and he couldn't think of any.

> Sounds like only the last two are potentially an issue.
> (Though same comment as above for the first one.)
> If "minor changes" means "less than ~ 15 lines worth of text from each
> author remains in the latest version of the file", then there's no issue
> here.

That's the change contributed by Rafael.

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a441d6681364#l5.1

It changes 3 lines.

Rik seems to have contributed more than 15 lines though.

# hg churn -t '{author}' doc/interpreter/emacs.txi
jwe                               595
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>      34
Rik <rik@octave.org>               14
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>     13
Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com>       8

(56 lines)

I'll contact him to check if he has signed the fsf papers or is willing to do 
so.

Regards,
Rüdiger