From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should nXML be included Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:14:49 +0200 Message-ID: <86tztdxns6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87zm35e2jc.fsf@dur.ac.uk> <87r6ohdzoo.fsf@dur.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181657715 15218 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 14:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Peter Heslin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 16:15:11 2007 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 1Hy79K-0003J4-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:15:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy79K-00018O-5P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy796-00013x-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy794-000130-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy794-00012p-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hy792-0001C2-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11722 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:14:43 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 27885 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2007 14:14:49 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Jun 2007 14:14:49 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A1628FA26; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:14:49 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87r6ohdzoo.fsf@dur.ac.uk> (Peter Heslin's message of "Tue\, 12 Jun 2007 15\:17\:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:72693 Archived-At: Peter Heslin writes: > joakim@verona.se writes: > >> James Clark appears to be difficult to contact these days, however, >> which might prove an obstacle for inclusion. > > Not necessarily. The files in question say that they are copyright FSF, > and I assume that James has papers on file for the other parts of Emacs > that he has contributed. I hope these would cover nxml too. > > An example header: > > ;;; nxml-mode.el --- a new XML mode > > ;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > ;; Author: James Clark > ;; Keywords: XML Copyright headers are not necessarily correct. That's why one needs the written assignment on file for contributions. If James has an assignment that only covers his (explicit) contributions to Emacs, he most certainly can't be held responsible for the accuracy of some headers in a file he never contributed to Emacs. -- David Kastrup