From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:03:10 -0700 Message-ID: <87shgwgtyp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mv784f1h.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502586220 1089 195.159.176.226 (13 Aug 2017 01:03:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:03:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 03:03:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJU-0008Ik-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:03:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJb-0004bn-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJT-0004ar-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJQ-0001UD-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:03:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46285 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJQ-0001SN-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dghJE-0007NV-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:03:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:gL824cwV0tHJj486OXoaqAwcPQ0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217501 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] >> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] >> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] >> >> > Perhaps apropos of the recent copyright discussions: there's a fair >> > bit of BBDB code still in there. I haven't gone through and measured, >> > but my top-of-the-head guess is around 15-20%. I've noted this fact in >> > the comments sections of the files, including the names of original >> > authors where applicable. >> >> Alas, this does raise a copyright issue. To include this in Emacs, we >> need to get legal papers from all the contributors of code that is >> still in your version (including you). With the exception of anyone >> whose contributions to Emacs (including this package) will be minimal >> (under 10 lines or so). > > Okay, I think I've sorted everything out except for one chunk of one > file, where I haven't yet been able to contact the author. I think I > might just take that chunk out for now, and get the package moving. Just > for background, Roland reminded me of this prior related discussion: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01888.html > > I think I've cleared everything but that one chunk of ebdb-gnus. > > If that's okay, I'll do a few more compiler-warning cleanups, and add > the package as an external. Okay, I give up: how do you add an external package? We add the appropriate line to externals-list in the master branch, right? Then push that? Then create a new branch, in my case external/ebdb, and put what in it -- anything? Will something automatically happen if I push that branch to ELPA? Thanks Eric