From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reviving tablature-mode.el -- license issue? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5924CE72-7B8D-426D-A387-566CD902702B@mit.edu> <875yvc9586.fsf@posteo.net> <295E7158-C0E6-431E-B9D8-7482F480531A@mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Qiantan Hong Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 05:33:02 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoKc-0001De-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:33:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44332 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoKb-0003Vo-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHQ-00082B-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHQ-0007Pl-8d; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHK-0003Eg-Tc; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <295E7158-C0E6-431E-B9D8-7482F480531A@mit.edu> (message from Qiantan Hong on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 08:13:16 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132955 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. ]]] > If we cannot get to contact the author, does that prevent it from entering GNU code? If this is for GNU Emacs, maybe it can go in NonGNU ELPA. That doesn't require that the FSF have the copyright. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)