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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de>, "Carsten Dominik" <dominik@uva.nl>,
	Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright question
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:35:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvve0d4fy4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buofxrhu15j.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:36:40 +0900")

> 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...

Indeed.  I'd be very happy to reduce the number of "Maintainer: FSF"
lines ;-)
As it stands, this number is growing for 2 reasons:
1 - the size of Emacs is increasing.
2 - maintainers don't last forever.  When they defect, the package
    stays, but often, no other maintainer steps forward.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 14:43 Copyright question Carsten Dominik
2008-06-12 19:30 ` David Hansen
2008-06-12 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13  8:19   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-13  9:59     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 13:15       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-14 20:11         ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-15 17:55         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-12 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-12 20:47   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-12 20:51     ` İsmail Dönmez
2008-06-12 23:31       ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-13  8:55         ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13  9:44           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13  9:36             ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 13:35               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-13 10:35             ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13 11:00               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:08     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:31 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-12 23:03   ` Bastien
2008-06-13  3:13     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-06-13  4:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13  7:58   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-13  9:51   ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13  9:58   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 12:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-14 19:16         ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-14 19:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 21:36         ` David Kastrup

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