From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright question Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:40 +0900 Message-ID: References: <82BFC2C8-9E38-491F-863D-1C420AB13882@uva.nl> <19e566510806121351m3f6daedesc50381af2f92b150@mail.gmail.com> <200806131055.15329.andreas.roehler@online.de> <20080613094454.GA2618@muc.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213349856 4747 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2008 09:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Dominik , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 11:38:18 2008 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 1K75jW-00077U-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K75ii-0006GZ-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K75iG-0005qh-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K75iE-0005oG-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49749 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K75iE-0005o4-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:39345) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K75iA-0002Cm-IW; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5D9aSTC026287; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:41 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:41 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:41 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 1A7C74E7; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:40 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20080613094454.GA2618@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:44:54 +0000") Original-Lines: 24 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:99083 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: >> I miss the human maintainer and copyright-notice in the sources. It was >> always nice to read. Maintainer FSF reads terrible. > > I agree fully. Can't people be proud of their contributions and leave > their name in? I'm not quite sure what the complaint is here. AFAIK, "Maintainer: FSF" is just used when there isn't a clear individual maintainer. Lots of source files seem to have a non-FSF maintainer line anyway... The copyright line reflects the copyright holder, so of course that says FSF. If someone wants credit, but isn't currently the maintainer, they can put in an "Author: ..." comment (which lots of source files have). -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.