From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyrights on various (mostly etc/) files. Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:49:51 -0700 Message-ID: <87bqr6e328.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> References: <87odvfamf1.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154325011 11371 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 05:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 07:50:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7QfJ-00037S-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:50:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7QfI-0007JY-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7Qf6-0007HP-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7Qf4-0007Eb-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7Qf4-0007EU-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7Qhe-0006sL-Th; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E47790D2B; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3849F23CC7; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA6BB355192; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:39:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:57836 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > In particular, there was some concern over files like JOKES, > yow.lines, COOKIES, etc. Have these been GPLed by the relevant > authors? (So that it's legal to distribute *and* modify them?) > > We got rid of yow.lines. Ahh, I see. I had checked for the file in CVS, but hadn't looked *in* the file. > JOKES and COOKIES are the sort of minor thing we can use as long as > the authors don't complain. Would it be correct or incorrect to assume that those two files, along with INTERVIEW and MOTIVATION, should be considered to be under something more like a verbatim only license (like CENSORSHIP and WHY-FREE) rather than being freely modifiable? Thanks very much for the help. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4