From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:27 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364730579 9903 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2013 11:49:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:49:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 31 13:50:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMGlx-0005gG-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMGlZ-00005v-Fb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMGlL-00005q-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMGlJ-00026v-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de ([178.63.89.203]:41339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMGlI-00026d-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:49:25 -0400 X-No-Relay: not in my network Original-Received: from bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_27_000 (p4FECCB33.dip.t-dialin.net [79.236.203.51]) by srv4.ns-domain-hosting.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CF30515DC001 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:49:23 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.89.203 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89831 Archived-At: Dear listmates, although this is a legal question, I am confident enough that most people know the answer. It is this: Some months ago, I fixed the "old-style backquotes" problem in psgml (which was fairly straightforward, even if I did not even know what backquotes are about), and I had inquired about this on this list beforehand. Back then, Stefan Monnier suggested that we should track down the other contributors to find out about copyright to see if the fix can be put on ELPA. We have tried this, but many of them do not seem to be available. Now, my question is this: Given that Lennart released it under the GPL (there is no separate LICENSE file, but all the .el files contain the standard sentences to that effect), do I actually need any previous contributors' permission to make the fix publicly available? (The problem is not that I do not want to ask them, but rather that it has turned out to be more time-consuming than I can afford.) Or, alternatively, could I simply publish a patch? The reason I am asking is that at least three other people have expressed their interest in continuing to use psgml, two of them in private emails to me. It seems a shame to me to let this (in my opinion) great package go unused, and on the other hand, I do not want to infringe on the rights of those who have written it. Many thanks in advance, Florian