Re: [ELPA] New package: xr

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Is the assignment for "changes to Emacs"?  If so, he should send a
  > > message saying that this file constitutes a change to Emacs, and then
  > > please send that message to address@hidden

  > Sorry, I don't understand.  We don't have separate assignments for
  > ELPA, we have always treated packages on ELPA as being part of Emacs,
  > for the copyright assignment purposes.  Is that incorrect for some
  > reason?

That is correct, but it's a different issue.

The point is when someone contributes changes to Emacs which consist
of a separate module -- so that it isn't clearly "a change to Emacs"
-- we should ask per to affirm explicitly that it _is_ a change to
Emacs, and therefore his assignment covers it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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