From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: "Håkon Malmedal" <hmalmedal@yahoo.no>
Subject: Re: holidays.el
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ekktwa7u.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pnfz598flz.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:05:44 +0100")
Glenn Morris <gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Kim F. Storm wrote:
>
>> These changes are more than a "tiny change", so we need papers from
>> Håkon to install these changes.
>
> I was unsure about that, so I consulted RMS before installing the
> changes. He said the opposite to you, but it's entirely possbile I
> didn't explain the changes well, so I'm ready to revert them.
>
>
> Richard Stallman wrote (on Wed, 22 Sep 2004 at 10:00 -0400):
>
>> I would install this, but I'm unsure as to whether there is a
>> copyright issue. The total number of lines changed is > 15, but
>> the actual idea behind the changes is simple, and it's really
>> just case of moving some code from one place to another in a
>> repetitive way. Can you advise please?
>>
>> A change like that is not significant for copyright purposes.
>> You go by the amount of new material that he actually wrote.
The code "moved" from holidays.el to calender.el is 'similar'
but not identical.
It involves taking 40 lines from a function in holidays.el and change
them into a form suitable for initializing a defcustom in calender.el.
I agree that the 'transformation' is repetitive/mechanical, and the
end-result is functionally equivalent to the original code. Still,
the change involves more than just "moving" code.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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[not found] <"Message from hmalmedal"@yahoo.no>
2004-07-19 15:59 ` holidays.el Håkon Malmedal
2004-07-19 17:35 ` holidays.el Ed Reingold
2004-09-22 23:27 ` holidays.el Glenn Morris
2004-09-23 7:26 ` holidays.el Kim F. Storm
2004-09-23 10:05 ` holidays.el Glenn Morris
2004-09-23 10:28 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-09-23 16:08 ` holidays.el Glenn Morris
2004-09-23 16:44 ` holidays.el Richard Stallman
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