Re: [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r325: Fix the copyright section to point out that it's not part of Emacs.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:
 > > Oh, ok.  I got an email from somebody that wondered whether it was
 > > correct to say "part of Emacs" for stuff that, er, isn't distributed
 > > with Emacs, so I changed it.  I'll revert the change.
 > 
 > You can also circumvent the whole issue and not say that it's part nor
 > say that it's not part.

That's a terrible idea.  It's bad enough if it's not part of Emacs;
but at least people know that they have to do more paperwork.  If it
*is* part of Emacs, then people who have papers on file for Emacs can
contribute freely.  Why obfuscate that?

You also might want to check with the lawyers to see if that would
adversely affect the FSF's ability to defend its position that
copyleft extends across linkage even if the linked files aren't
distributed with the derived code (ie, because the contention is that
they still constitute a single work).  Probably not, but it's
unpredictable what a real lawyer will say....

IANAL-ly y'rs,