Re: [PATCH] [ELPA] Implement connman in enwc

[Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>]

Noé Lopez <noe@noé.eu> writes:

> Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in> writes:
>
>> Hi Noé!  Thanks for working on enwc.el!
>>
>> Noé Lopez writes:
>>
>>> I've pushed my changes to a fork repository at
>>> https://framagit.org/nll/enwc, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do
>>> my changes without breaking any copyright/gpl.
>>
>>> As I understand, the code is part of GNU Emacs because it's in ELPA, and
>>> its copyright is assigned to the FSF. My changes are not part of emacs
>>> so are not subject to my copyright assignment. Does that mean I need to
>>> add a second header to the files I changed mentionning my name and that
>>> my work is also under gpl but not part of emacs ?
>>
>> Are you willing to assign your changes to FSF?  If so, I think you can
>> simply update the end date of the copyright range from 2017 to 2024.
>>
>
> I’ve already assigned my changes. I will do just what you said.
>
>>> Then, the documentation mentions copyright directly to Ian Dunn, so I
>>> suppose that doesn't count as part of emacs ? To modify it I would need
>>> to change its title and other FDL stuff. Or I could rewrite it all,
>>> since its only a few lines right now.
>>
>> Writing new documentation might be the best way to go.
>>
>
> For sure.
>
>>> Should I change the name of the project, and update the copyright
>>> information and add a notice that this is a modified version of ENWC, or
>>> is it possible/legal to make my repository the new ELPA source, and make
>>> my work part of emacs, which would mean all copyright to the FSF so no
>>> need to update headers ?
>>
>> No name change necessary.  It's possible to make your repo the new
>> source if you can't or don't want to use Savannah.
>>
>
> That would be great, I will try to make a new release with the good
> copyright notices and a complete documentation and I’ll hit you up to
> change the source :)

Thank you!!

Joseph