From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:27:00 +0400 Message-ID: <876207hf8b.fsf@yandex.ru> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364736451 25995 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2013 13:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 31 15:27:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMIIc-0007uS-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMIID-0002aJ-Vl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMIHz-0002aD-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMIHr-00028Q-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:54555) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMIHr-00028A-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id s10so1296192lbi.5 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:27:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-antivirus :x-antivirus-status; bh=MmcrvuNnKSuoT37KmIAqUEjzMMX8isQNaxkEE2eJxOo=; b=VljYZRT8Drs5RU5a+F4xDvqeYTRh+8QBRHPzxen24adxDoIPDKIf9CcdbVZvP/HWgC G+sww8ZqdBAhEKvrzOD5fcfbyIKPCQd9uyj0IiSlIwxB8CkwlOTCjxEn0MxoY0/hhUZW xjDgX/R9APlAuxTApWIyeesmSMwiDmYAaIq7dHHAkUaeb7EaxNCoKn45pAsJT1TTUVet oJbtlhnUPk0gmBqxuUB2AhBVu+evzycsRHqpXyX/UoOp3BD75V6L49eeUpuSBs43VGZW BOYUKrXpbnefG1RJ7bonWLmkomC5HuXstM+ZbC39ZKeEDSh5WZJgyhK2pF+TiNPAoi4/ gqiQ== X-Received: by 10.152.112.231 with SMTP id it7mr4059881lab.10.1364736426360; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from SOL ([178.252.98.87]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id go12sm4018829lab.3.2013.03.31.06.27.04 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Florian v. Savigny's message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130331-0, 31.03.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.217.174 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89834 Archived-At: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) writes: > although this is a legal question, I am confident enough that most > people know the answer. It is this: > > Some months ago, I fixed the "old-style backquotes" problem in psgml > (which was fairly straightforward, even if I did not even know what > backquotes are about), and I had inquired about this on this list > beforehand. Back then, Stefan Monnier suggested that we should track > down the other contributors to find out about copyright to see if the > fix can be put on ELPA. We have tried this, but many of them do not > seem to be available. > > Now, my question is this: Given that Lennart released it under the GPL > (there is no separate LICENSE file, but all the .el files contain the > standard sentences to that effect), do I actually need any previous > contributors' permission to make the fix publicly available? (The > problem is not that I do not want to ask them, but rather that it has > turned out to be more time-consuming than I can afford.) Or, > alternatively, could I simply publish a patch? IANAL, but as long as the original code is licensed under GPL, you can absolutely publish the patch, and the modified code. You won't be able to distribute it via GNU ELPA or together with GNU Emacs because the project's policy requires copyright assignment. -- Dmitry