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Re: Moving octave-mode manual from GNU Octave to GNU Emacs.
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Rüdiger Sonderfeld |
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Re: Moving octave-mode manual from GNU Octave to GNU Emacs. |
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Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:16:30 +0100 |
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Hello Glenn,
On Thursday 21 November 2013 13:53:20 Glenn Morris wrote:
> You can't assume this, because it often seems to have happened in the
> past that people assigned specific things rather than doing a blanket
> assignment for "Emacs" (which would still only cover things they
> explicitly wanted to contribute). And indeed the relevant entry in the
> copyright.list file only says "Assigns octave.el and future changes.".
> Does this include any associated manual? I dunno. It probably does, but
> to be safe, I would suggest you ask address@hidden for a definitive answer.
Isn't address@hidden the address for such questions?
> (Eg it seems slightly odd that the manual isn't in Emacs until now.)
I've asked John W. Eaton (the GNU Octave maintainer) if there was a reason why
the manual wasn't moved to Emacs and he couldn't think of any.
> Sounds like only the last two are potentially an issue.
> (Though same comment as above for the first one.)
> If "minor changes" means "less than ~ 15 lines worth of text from each
> author remains in the latest version of the file", then there's no issue
> here.
That's the change contributed by Rafael.
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a441d6681364#l5.1
It changes 3 lines.
Rik seems to have contributed more than 15 lines though.
# hg churn -t '{author}' doc/interpreter/emacs.txi
jwe 595
Rik <address@hidden> 34
Rik <address@hidden> 14
John W. Eaton <address@hidden> 13
Rik <address@hidden> 8
(56 lines)
I'll contact him to check if he has signed the fsf papers or is willing to do
so.
Regards,
Rüdiger