Re: pabbrev

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>> If someone of emacs maintainers can confirm that 4 lines of code are not
>> requiring FSF copyright aissignement, I'll be happy to install the suggestion by
>> Terrence. For the eventual future info: how much is considered as
>> "insignificant" and how do I test if someone has signed FSF papers? It was about
>> sending email to some addresss?
>
> The threshold is about 15LOC.
> See https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant
>
> You may find the whole
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html
> and https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html useful.

Yes, thank you very much; that was very useful; especially this:

"Copyright does not cover ideas. If someone contributes ideas but no text, these
ideas may be morally significant as contributions, and worth giving credit for,
but they are not significant for copyright purposes. Likewise, bug reports do
not count for copyright purposes."

This was less than 10 lines; and I had to rewrite it anyway, and it was more of
a potential bug than a feature, I guess it was OK to get included. I have
already given Terrence credit in Git log; and I'll do so in the pabbrev.el as
well, and thank you Terrence for contributing it.

Thank you for help!
/arthur