From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: holidays.el Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:28:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5fu0tpga0n.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095935709 19392 80.91.229.6 (23 Sep 2004 10:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?q?H=C3=A5kon_Malmedal?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 12:34:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAQwA-00081x-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAR2C-0000EN-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAR24-0000D0-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAR23-0000CY-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAR23-0000CV-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CAQvh-0003km-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 43479 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 10:28:22 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 10:28:22 -0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:05:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27485 Glenn Morris writes: > Kim F. Storm wrote: > >> These changes are more than a "tiny change", so we need papers from >> H=C3=A5kon 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? >>=20 >> 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.=20=20 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. --=20 Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk