From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Do you recognize these modules? Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:03 +0200 Message-ID: <8762bz89zg.fsf@gnuvola.org> References: <87zk9r8p1s.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336982613 15527 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 08:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 08:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 10:03:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1STqFf-0008AT-9g for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 10:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STqFe-00088B-Hw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 04:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STqFX-000885-ET for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 04:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STqFR-0007e3-6e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 04:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp206.alice.it ([82.57.200.102]:53607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STqFQ-0007Zb-Sj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 04:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ambire (79.10.157.240) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4F9BF1D301AA3ECA; Mon, 14 May 2012 10:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1STqGB-0000du-Ah; Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:03 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.102 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14409 Archived-At: () Noah Lavine () Wed, 2 May 2012 11:26:22 -0400 Unfortunately, it looks like the changes for these do not have copyright assigned to the FSF, so we can't use them directly. Is that correct? Partially (details below). Also, I hope this isn't a sensitive topic, but why is there a semi-friendly fork of Guile 1.4? Are there things that you want to accomplish that Guile 2.0 can't do? Or maybe you want complete compatibility with Guile 1.4 - even so, why fork? It's not sensitive, but it's not a short answer, either... [maudlin recollections snipped -- i will publish these separately.] The short answer is that the fork (from 2001 or so) was a reaction to losing repo write privs. Now that i have regained them, i am interested in merging back the relevant bits, w/ copyright notice modified to the proper FSF standards. Details up to you... I see from another post you have decided to rewrite, due to my delayed response. Sorry about that. I anticipate my ability to keep up in the foreseeable future to be likewise limited, so if you're still interested, please let me know what i must do to get these bits in-tree and useful to you (and others) as a basis for further maintenance (kind of a one-shot mass-transfer). Thanks for taking care of 1.8, btw -- i am sure i'm not alone in appreciating this work.