From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relicensing the Emacs repository Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185394346 15544 80.91.229.12 (25 Jul 2007 20:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 22:12:21 2007 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 1IDnDZ-0002jl-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnDY-0000sv-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBW-000785-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBW-00077f-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDnBV-00077V-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDnBV-0007AI-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDnDB-0003dN-8p; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:43:27 -0400) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:75535 Archived-At: oldXMenu/insque.c We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so definitely relicense that. src/regex.c ? part of emacs? src/regex.h That forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that. These look like parts of glibc, mainly: rc/getloadavg.c src/gmalloc.c src/md5.c ? "part of emacs?" src/md5.h src/mktime.c src/strftime.c src/termcap.c ? part of emacs? src/tparam.c ? part of emacs? config.guess config.sub Those are probably Gnulib files. For now, you may as well leave them alone. We may copy them from Gnulib again. > 2. I updated the files that are joint copyright FSF and AIST, or > copyright AIST alone (eg lisp/composite.el). These are all marked > as part of Emacs. This includes files in leim, leim/quail, lisp, > lisp/language, lisp/international, src. That was the right thing to do. Anyone can update them to GPLv3+. > 5. lwlib/ - I left alone. > Files originally in Lucid Widget Library remain under GPL v1 or > later, or v2 or later. We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to change it much. These two seem confusing to me: etc/vipcard.tex etc/viperCard.tex They contain simple licenses which seem fine, but also refer to the "GNU Emacs GPL". I suggest just changing these two to the standard Emacs license text. Would you like to do that? 8. Some non-Emacs icons remain under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See: etc/images/gnus/README etc/images/mail/README etc/images/README nt/icons/README Earlier you said that the license info was not clear for some of the icons. Yesterday I sent you the response from GNOME developers. What do these files say in their text properties?