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: legal status of progmodes/sym-comp.el Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3h7igyw31a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203620279 6768 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 18:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:57:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 19:58:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSGcb-0006Dp-EU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:58:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGc6-0008K6-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGc0-0008Eh-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGby-0008AH-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGby-0008A3-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSGby-0007oZ-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JSGbx-00017O-O9; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:57:37 -0500 X-Spook: Delta Force ANDVT AMEMB AVN Saddam Hussein Abbas Peking X-Ran: b9}1rxw^mPzqH;Dz>T2lk"_5'mnvrAk?QFYgy*H(&QU+Z_hOr{*pM];EY4?Wj?7mdUOqCr X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89848 Archived-At: It's can of worms time again... Dave Love's latest version of python.el requires his sym-comp library. This is now installed as lisp/progmodes/sym-comp.el. It is "Copyright (C) 2004 Dave Love". As far as I know, he has expressed no interest in contributing this to Emacs, so I don't see that we can just take it and make it copyright FSF. I mean, I have a blanket past and future Emacs copyright assignment, but that doesn't mean you can take any elisp code I happen to put on a website and make it copyright FSF - only those things I explicitly contribute. (We seem to be interpreting the lawyer's statement: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html From: Richard Stallman Subject: We can use python.el Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:47:54 -0400 Our lawyer says we can use python.el, including the more recent changes. to mean that any changes Dave makes to python.el on his website can be incorporated into Emacs for the rest of time, even if he doesn't explicitly say so. That seems odd to me as well.)