From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:57:32 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226025476 27728 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2008 02:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:37:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 03:38:59 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KyHFP-0006Oj-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:38:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyHEH-0007UV-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyHCh-0005rV-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyHCf-0005pq-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50890 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyHCf-0005pY-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59816) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyGeI-0006Ef-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KyGbM-0000WR-DF; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:57:32 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:105425 Archived-At: That is a free software license. "Without fee or royalty" means you don't have to pay to redistribute it. So we can use those files, but we have to maintain the copyright notices and license notices. How did they get lost? We must NEVER install code in Emacs without proper copyright notices and license notices in each file. Whoever installed these should have checked them and noticed the lack of these notices. When the file lacks a notice, it needs to be changed. If the FSF has copyright, then it needs an FSF copyright notice and a GPL license notice. Otherwise it needs the _right_ notices whatever they are. Also, any non-FSF-copyrighted material must be checked by the FSF! Also, we have to distribute the source code. Someone said these files are the result of "transforming" some other files. What kind of "transforming" was it? If it is automated, then maybe these files are the real source code.