From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noah Lavine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Do you recognize these modules? Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:59:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zk9r8p1s.fsf@gnuvola.org> <8762bz89zg.fsf@gnuvola.org> <87obpqudds.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337003997 23745 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 13:59:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 15:59:56 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 1STvoX-0007cM-NM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:59:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STvoT-0005Uw-R4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 09:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STvoJ-0005T4-Qt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 09:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STvoF-0002Lw-7Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 09:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:59530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STvo8-0002JE-Rh; Mon, 14 May 2012 09:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so2381069ggm.0 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 06:59:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=syg36Mj/2peltKiEBLKcDziDh28GfrlUD9fzV1L5PK0=; b=YtQfVYVxaBePojEJ5ZsbNfPc1WfYFA/TQ44H0/ookoCHGQq1+hQ4sgAq3rXuxuuttS 8apF1GdN5Q5Gx/L4OSiw/1icfBe+//CCcoIdVeeclv+zGK+vijSSFBSNPnhAxkZjxGKW VApPTsCUXT7KABoMlFNsEYo8d8SDX3+Wjipa/Y0WoKU5SJgxNTtzLzlHj8CW+gpAwEc+ /0jgTE8Y0b4okP2AxVV7BetVzm+llcEY4+mK8PvQy+78V8COJrUY+m8PApcwmHQMwSVM PN6WGX8SHGrOrOTD9/C35oD/6ZuBh/kHlYI8RFT4U3yDJojgeqyGN2DgICrdn5zHAMdD i+Kw== Original-Received: by 10.50.180.137 with SMTP id do9mr4165994igc.71.1337003966283; Mon, 14 May 2012 06:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.42.29.200 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2012 06:59:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87obpqudds.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: HrY2OXLuqbh3A1ZPUNUrmRJur_Q X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 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:14414 Archived-At: >> Luckily, I haven't actually started the rewrite, because I also have >> limited time to work on this. So I'm very glad to hear that you're >> interested in transfering them. If you are the only author of the >> pieces, then I think the transfer is simple - you put the FSF >> copyright notice at the top, and you're done. > > Uh no. =A0You can't just assign copyright to somebody without asking them= , > much like you can't just assign parentship to somebody without asking > them. Yes, this was specific to this situation, because I thought that he had already signed a copyright assignment form. I don't mean this as a general statement of when you can make changes to Guile. > Since Thien-Thi Nguyen assigned copyright to GOOPS and general changes > to future changes to GUILE to the FSF in 2000 already, it is more or > less a matter of him checking in the changes or otherwise contributing > them in a manner making clear that the contribution is intentional. > Matching copyright headers are obviously a good indicator for that. Ah, so he would have to either check them in himself or send them as patches to the list, correct? (In addition to the assignment.) Noah