From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tests and copyright Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:33:05 +0200 Message-ID: <877gfoq7ou.fsf@engster.org> References: <87fvudqsld.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376516016 32256 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 21:33:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: PJ Weisberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 23:33:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1V9ihC-0002hC-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:33:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ihB-0007I6-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44383) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9ih2-0007Hp-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9igs-0007A8-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([83.169.19.17]:35833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9igs-00077P-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:33:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=fnsIWbR8WjcUqFN2xCDlTEx1sj86oYPL4x7AtgZ7I5E=; b=HEAKgIB3S/dWemOLUHZuwy7cIJwdvZ7imzpGOnXYi75yncS9CaSjnZDRdrlRVpfQbzq3ZpCReTbMQhrguDIllbQ7Wwedq6a35QDrfNN162hYkMcxWvKB1VGGiQAL+Kct; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-047-029.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.47.29] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V9igk-0002TF-JE; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:33:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: (PJ Weisberg's message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:04:18 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: PJ Weisberg , Emacs-Devel devel X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 83.169.19.17 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162742 Archived-At: PJ Weisberg writes: > On Aug 13, 2013 12:50 PM, "David Engster" wrote: >> >> I'm currently migrating our EIEIO test suite to Emacs, and I'm wondering >> if files in the tests/ directory fall under the same rules w.r.t. to >> copyright/papers? > > I don't see why they wouldn't,=A0 if they're distributed.=A0 They're just= as much > the original work of an author. AFAIK, they are not distributed with the tarballs. Also, at least I do not consider them part of "the Emacs source code", but I'm not a lawyer. Anyway, I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to wade through years of log history, as if porting test code wasn't boring enough already. -David