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

["Noé Lopez via Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

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 :)

Thanks,
Noé