From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ltts3ik.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1dbyuC-00034F-0n@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
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>
> > Perhaps apropos of the recent copyright discussions: there's a fair
> > bit of BBDB code still in there. I haven't gone through and measured,
> > but my top-of-the-head guess is around 15-20%. I've noted this fact in
> > the comments sections of the files, including the names of original
> > authors where applicable.
>
> Alas, this does raise a copyright issue. To include this in Emacs, we
> need to get legal papers from all the contributors of code that is
> still in your version (including you). With the exception of anyone
> whose contributions to Emacs (including this package) will be minimal
> (under 10 lines or so).
Okay, I guess that's not a surprise. I'll figure out which code was
likely written by whom, and come up with a list of names. If I raise
them here, can someone help me check if they've got assignment?
As Eli mentions, I bet many of them (including myself) have already
signed the papers.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-31 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-30 19:18 [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Eric Abrahamsen
2017-07-31 0:49 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-31 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-31 3:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-07-31 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-31 3:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-09 21:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-13 1:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-13 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 1:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-14 9:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 15:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-14 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 23:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-15 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-15 15:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 16:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-17 22:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-17 23:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 5:33 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-01 16:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 22:25 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-01 23:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-02 1:28 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-02 3:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 5:58 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-06 22:12 Roland Winkler
2017-08-07 0:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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