From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Authorship and copyright of derived exporters Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:46:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87sit5ax0g.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <52C6B3BC.2080309@roklein.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz6xW-00060Y-BW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:46:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz6xQ-0001Ol-Gq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:46:50 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22b]:48942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz6xQ-0001NX-AL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:46:44 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id k14so13704164wgh.22 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:46:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52C6B3BC.2080309@roklein.de> (Robert Klein's message of "Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:57:32 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Robert Klein Cc: emacs-orgmode list Robert Klein writes: > Should I copy the authors of the backends I derived from into my > file(s)? I'd rather not leave them out, but, on the other hand, maybe > they don't want to be associated with my sometimes paltry attempts at > coding. A derived backend only works when the upstream one is available, so I'd say no, there is no need to mention authors of the upstream one. `org-export-define-derived-backend' is just a function generating code from other pieces of code. -- Bastien