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Re: legal status of progmodes/sym-comp.el
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: legal status of progmodes/sym-comp.el |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:02:38 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> It's can of worms time again...
>
> Dave Love's latest version of python.el requires his sym-comp library.
> This is now installed as lisp/progmodes/sym-comp.el.
> It is "Copyright (C) 2004 Dave Love".
>
> As far as I know, he has expressed no interest in contributing this to
> Emacs, so I don't see that we can just take it and make it copyright FSF.
>
> I mean, I have a blanket past and future Emacs copyright assignment,
> but that doesn't mean you can take any elisp code I happen to put on a
> website and make it copyright FSF - only those things I explicitly
> contribute.
>
> (We seem to be interpreting the lawyer's statement:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html
> From: Richard Stallman
> Subject: We can use python.el
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:47:54 -0400
>
> Our lawyer says we can use python.el, including the more recent changes.
>
> to mean that any changes Dave makes to python.el on his website can be
> incorporated into Emacs for the rest of time, even if he doesn't
> explicitly say so. That seems odd to me as well.)
Thanks for the catch. I'm forwarding this to Dave Love as well.