From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: legal status of progmodes/sym-comp.el Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:02:38 -0500 Message-ID: <8763wiw2sx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <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 1203620659 8476 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 19:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Love Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 20:04:44 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 1JSGio-00005f-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:04:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGiJ-0007xQ-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGiF-0007ws-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGiB-0007w6-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSGiB-0007w3-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSGi3-0000j0-QL; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:03:55 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABDF64E3F7; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:02:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <3h7igyw31a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu\, 21 Feb 2008 13\:57\:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:89849 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > 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.) Thanks for the catch. I'm forwarding this to Dave Love as well.