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: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:26:20 -0500 Message-ID: <87r6f4kaab.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <3h7igyw31a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8763wiw2sx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x1ckc1v.fsf@liv.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203712091 17963 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2008 20:28:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:28:11 +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 Fri Feb 22 21:28:36 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 1JSeVN-0001vY-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSeUr-0001jD-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSeUn-0001iU-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSeUm-0001iA-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSeUm-0001i5-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:48 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSeUf-0005Ua-F1; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 857AD4E3FB; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:26:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <878x1ckc1v.fsf@liv.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "Fri\, 22 Feb 2008 19\:48\:12 +0000") 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:90013 Archived-At: Dave Love writes: >>> 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". > > That's obviously an error -- since it contains code from lisp.el -- > probably due to Emacs regressions breaking my context-dependent > settings, which I didn't spot in that case. I'll fix the notice when I > get a chance. > > Obviously it was meant to be in Emacs. It would have been, with other > abstractions, if I'd got round to it when I was a maintainer. However > it was rejected previously and expurgated from python.el. There's no > point in using it just for Python. > >>> 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. > > Indeed, in general, but that was a mistake. You can use the sym-comp > code if it's now acceptable for some reason. Okay. Thanks for the clarification!