From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:49:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501462271 20827 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2017 00:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 02:51:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyvL-0005De-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:51:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyvR-0003lT-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyuU-0003d2-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyuP-0003B3-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyuG-0002uj-Mz; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyuC-00034F-0n; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:49:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:18:40 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217172 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.