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

[Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>]

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.

> 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.

> 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.

Thank you!

Joseph