From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:49:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dbyuC-00034F-0n@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:18:40 -0700)
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> Perhaps apropos of the recent copyright discussions: there's a fair
> bit of BBDB code still in there. I haven't gone through and measured,
> but my top-of-the-head guess is around 15-20%. I've noted this fact in
> the comments sections of the files, including the names of original
> authors where applicable.
Alas, this does raise a copyright issue. To include this in Emacs, we
need to get legal papers from all the contributors of code that is
still in your version (including you). With the exception of anyone
whose contributions to Emacs (including this package) will be minimal
(under 10 lines or so).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-31 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-30 19:18 [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Eric Abrahamsen
2017-07-31 0:49 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-07-31 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-31 3:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-07-31 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-31 3:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-09 21:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-13 1:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-13 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 1:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-14 9:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 15:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-14 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-14 23:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-15 7:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-15 15:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 16:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-17 22:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-17 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-17 23:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 5:33 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-01 16:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 22:25 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-01 23:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-02 1:28 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-02 3:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-01 5:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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2017-08-06 22:12 Roland Winkler
2017-08-07 0:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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