From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:12:51 -0700 Message-ID: <874ltts3ik.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501470808 2866 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2017 03:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 03:13:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 05:13:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dc18y-0000N4-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc194-00040g-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc18v-00040Z-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc18r-0005G9-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54193 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dc18r-0005Do-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dc18Z-0007Xr-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:12:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:76nV2LxrtYfE8Na7vjgORpR/FO0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217175 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > 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