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79745 | 1 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
75776 | 2 See the end of the file for license conditions. |
75596 | 3 |
4 | |
75465 | 5 NOTES ON COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES |
6 | |
7 Some terminology: | |
8 | |
9 A "copyright notice" consists of one or a few lines of this format: | |
10 "Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc." | |
11 | |
12 A "license notice" is a statement of permissions, and is usually much | |
13 longer, eg the text "GNU Emacs is free software...". | |
14 | |
15 | |
75967 | 16 Summary for the impatient: |
17 | |
76329 | 18 1. Don't add code to Emacs written by someone other than yourself |
76330 | 19 without thinking about the legal aspect. Even if the changes are |
20 trivial, consider if they combine with previous changes by the same | |
21 author to make a non-trivial total. If so, make sure they have an | |
22 assignment. If adding a whole file adjust the copyright statements in | |
23 the file. | |
75967 | 24 |
76330 | 25 2. When installing code written by someone else, the ChangeLog entry |
26 should be in the name of the author of the code, not the person who | |
27 installs it. I think it is helpful to put the author (if not yourself) | |
28 in the CVS log as well; and to not install any of your own changes in | |
29 the same commit. | |
76329 | 30 |
31 3. With images, add the legal info to a README file in the directory | |
75967 | 32 containing the image. |
33 | |
76329 | 34 4. If you add a lot of text to a previously trivial file that had no |
75967 | 35 legal notices, consider if you should add a copyright statement. |
36 | |
76329 | 37 5. Please don't just add an FSF copyright without checking that is the |
76194 | 38 right thing to do. |
39 | |
75967 | 40 |
75465 | 41 Every non-trivial file distributed through the Emacs CVS should be |
42 self-explanatory in terms of copyright and license. This includes | |
43 files that are not distributed in Emacs releases (for example, the | |
44 admin/ directory), because the whole Emacs CVS is publicly | |
45 available. | |
46 | |
47 The definition of triviality is a little vague, but a rule of thumb is | |
48 that any file with less than 15 lines of actual content is trivial. If | |
49 a file is auto-generated (eg ldefs-boot.el) from another one in the | |
50 CVS, then it does not really matter about adding a copyright statement | |
51 to the generated file. | |
52 | |
76011 | 53 Legal advice says that we could, if we wished, put a license notice |
54 even in trivial files, because copyright law in general looks at the | |
55 overall work as a whole. It is not _necessary_ to do so, and rms | |
56 prefers that we do not. This means one needs to take care that trivial | |
57 files do not grow and become non-trivial without having a license | |
58 added. NB consequently, if you add a lot of text to a small file, | |
59 consider whether your changes have made the file worthy of a copyright | |
60 notice, and if so, please add one. | |
75911 | 61 |
76213 | 62 It can be helpful to put a reminder comment at the start of a trivial |
63 file, eg: "add a license notice if this grows to > 10 lines of code". | |
64 | |
75465 | 65 The years in the copyright notice should be updated every year (see |
66 file "years" in this directory). The PS versions of refcards etc | |
67 should display copyright notices (an exception to the rule about | |
68 "generated" files), but these can just display the latest year. The | |
69 full list of years should be kept in comments in the source file. If | |
70 these are distributed in CVS, check in a regenerated version when the | |
71 tex files are updated. | |
72 | |
73 Copyright changes should be propagated to any associated repositories | |
74 (eg Gnus, MH-E), but I think in every case this happens automatically | |
75 (?). | |
76 | |
75776 | 77 All README (and other such text files) that are non-trivial should |
78 contain copyright statements and GPL license notices, exactly as .el | |
75934 | 79 files do (see e.g. README in the top-level directory). Before 2007, |
75776 | 80 we used a simple, short statement permitting copying and modification |
81 provided legal notices were retained. In Feb 2007 we switched to the | |
75934 | 82 standard GPL text, on legal advice. Some older text files in etc/ |
83 should, however, keep their current licenses (see below for list). | |
75465 | 84 |
75776 | 85 For image files, the copyright and license details should be recorded |
86 in a README file in each directory with images. (Legal advice says | |
87 that we need not add notices to each image file individually, if they | |
75865 | 88 allow for that.). It is recommended to use the word "convert" to |
89 describe the automatic process of changing an image from one format to | |
90 another (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00618.html). | |
91 | |
75465 | 92 |
93 When installing a file with an "unusual" license (after checking first | |
94 it is ok), put a copy of the copyright and license in the file (if | |
95 possible. It's ok if this makes the file incompatible with its | |
96 original format, if it can still be used by Emacs), or in a README | |
97 file in the relevant directory. | |
98 | |
99 The vast majority of files are copyright FSF and distributed under the | |
100 GPL. A few files (mainly related to language and charset support) are | |
101 copyright AIST alone, or both AIST and FSF. (Contact Kenichi Handa | |
102 with questions about legal issues in such files.) In all these cases, | |
103 the copyright years in each file should be updated each year. | |
104 | |
105 There are some exceptions to the points in the previous paragraph, and | |
106 these are listed below for reference, together with any files where | |
107 the copyright needs to be updated in "unusual" ways. | |
108 | |
109 If you find any other such cases, please consult to check they are ok, | |
110 and note them in this file. This includes missing copyright notices, | |
111 and "odd" copyright holders. In most cases, individual authors should | |
112 not appear in copyright statements. Either the copyright has been | |
113 assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in which case the original | |
114 author should be removed and the year(s) transferred to the FSF); or | |
115 else it is possible the file should not be in Emacs at all (please | |
116 report!). | |
117 | |
75791 | 118 Note that it seems painfully clear that one cannot rely on CVS logs, |
119 or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes | |
120 from others, without recording the true authorship. | |
121 | |
75465 | 122 [For reference, most of these points were established via email with |
123 rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".] | |
124 | |
125 | |
75596 | 126 lib-src/etags.c # print_version |
127 lib-src/rcs2log # Copyright | |
128 lisp/calc/calc-help.el # calc-full-help | |
129 lisp/startup.el # fancy-splash-tail | |
130 mac/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings | |
131 mac/src/Emacs.r # resource 'vers' | |
132 src/emacs.c | |
133 - remember to change the latest copyright year in the --version output. | |
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134 `set-copyright' in admin.el will do all the above. |
75596 | 135 |
75465 | 136 <top-level>/install-sh |
137 lispintro/install-sh | |
138 - this file is copyright MIT, which is OK. Leave the copyright alone. | |
139 | |
75911 | 140 src/m/news-r6.h |
75865 | 141 public domain, leave alone. |
142 | |
76358 | 143 etc/BABYL, ms-kermit |
144 no notices (see below). | |
145 | |
75465 | 146 etc/edt-user.doc |
147 - update BOTH notices in this file | |
148 | |
76011 | 149 etc/emacs.csh |
76461 | 150 - written by Michael DeCorte, who has no assignment. But trivial |
151 enough to not need license. | |
76011 | 152 |
76220 | 153 etc/future-bug |
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154 - doesn't need a humorless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we |
76220 | 155 can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for |
156 Emacs changes. (email to rgm "[Emacs-commit] emacs/etc future-bug", | |
157 2007028) | |
158 | |
75865 | 159 etc/letter.pbm,letter.xpm |
75791 | 160 - trivial, no notice needed. |
75865 | 161 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00324.html> |
162 | |
75911 | 163 etc/FTP, ORDERS |
164 - trivial (at time of writing), no license needed | |
165 | |
75865 | 166 etc/GNU, INTERVIEW, LINUX-GNU, MOTIVATION, SERVICE, THE-GNU-PROJECT, |
167 WHY-FREE | |
168 rms: "These are statements of opinion or testimony. Their licenses | |
169 should permit verbatim copying only. Please don't change the | |
170 licenses that they have. They are distributed with Emacs but they | |
171 are not part of Emacs." | |
172 | |
76432 | 173 etc/HELLO |
174 standard notices. Just a note that although the file itself is not | |
76433 | 175 really copyrightable, in the wider context of it being part of |
76432 | 176 Emacs (and written by those with assignments), a standard notice is |
177 fine. | |
178 | |
75865 | 179 etc/MAILINGLISTS |
180 rms: simple license is fine for this file | |
75791 | 181 |
75539 | 182 leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit, ARRAY30.tit, CCDOSPY.tit, ECDICT.tit, |
183 ETZY.tit, PY-b5.tit, Punct-b5.tit, Punct.tit, QJ-b5.tit, QJ.tit, | |
184 SW.tit, TONEPY.tit, ZOZY.tit | |
75465 | 185 - leave the copyrights alone. |
186 | |
187 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html, CTLau.html, cangjie-table.b5, cangjie-table.cns, | |
75539 | 188 pinyin.map, ziranma.cin |
75465 | 189 - leave the copyright alone. |
76220 | 190 Note that pinyin.map, ziranma.cin (and hence the generated |
191 leim/quail/PY.el, ZIRANMA.el) are under GPLv1 or later. | |
75465 | 192 |
193 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L | |
194 ja-dic/ja-dic.el | |
195 (the latter is auto-generated from the former). Leave the copyright alone. | |
196 | |
197 lib-src/etags.c | |
76194 | 198 Copyright information is duplicated in etc/ETAGS.README. Update that |
199 file too. | |
200 | |
201 Until 2007 etags.c was described as being copyright FSF and Ken Arnold. | |
202 After some investigation in Feb 2007, then to the best of our | |
203 knowledge we believe that the original 1984 Emacs version was based | |
204 on the version in BSD4.2. See for example this 1985 post from Ken Arnold: | |
205 <http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ffe5c55845a640a9> | |
206 I have received enough requests for the current source to ctags | |
207 to post it. Here is the latest version (what will go out with | |
208 4.3, modulo any bugs fixed during the beta period). It is the | |
209 4.2 ctags with recognition of yacc and lex tags added. | |
210 | |
211 See also a 1984 version of ctags (no copyright) posted to net.sources: | |
212 <http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/msg/a21b6c21be12a98d> | |
213 Version of etags.c in emacs-16.56 duplicates comment typos. | |
214 | |
215 Accordingly, in Feb 2007 we added a 1984 copyright for the | |
216 University of California and a revised BSD license. The terms of | |
217 this require that the full license details be available in binary | |
76243 | 218 distributions - hence the file etc/ETAGS.README. The fact that the |
219 --version output just says "Copyright <year> FSF" is apparently OK | |
220 from a legal point of view. | |
75465 | 221 |
222 lib-src/getopt1.c, getopt_int.h | |
223 - these are from the GNU C library. Leave the copyrights alone. | |
224 | |
75499 | 225 lisp/play/tetris.el |
226 - no special rules about the copyright. We note here that we believe | |
227 (2007/1) there is no problem with our use of the name "tetris" or | |
228 the concept. | |
229 rms: "My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable." | |
230 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00960.html> | |
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231 rms: Legal advice is that we are ok and need not worry about this. |
75499 | 232 |
75465 | 233 lispref/doclicense.texi |
234 man/doclicense.texi | |
235 - leave the copyright alone in this imported file. | |
236 | |
237 lisp/net/tramp.el | |
238 - there are also copyrights in the body of the file. Update these too. | |
239 | |
76194 | 240 |
75991 | 241 lwlib/ |
242 rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider | |
243 it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib." | |
244 | |
76246 | 245 NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see |
246 below). | |
247 | |
76194 | 248 FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone |
249 non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid | |
250 Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to | |
251 a file with no FSF copyright, you should add one. Also, if changes are | |
252 reverted to the extent that a file becomes basically the same as the | |
253 original version, the FSF copyright should be removed. | |
254 | |
255 In my (rgm) opinion, as of Feb 2007, all the non-trivial files differ | |
256 significantly from the original versions, with the exception of | |
257 lwlib-Xm.h. Most of the changes that were made to this file have | |
258 subsequently been reverted. Therefore I removed the FSF copyright from | |
259 this file (which is arguably too trivial to merit a notice anyway). I | |
260 added FSF copyright to the following files which did not have them | |
261 already: Makefile.in, lwlib-Xaw.c, lwlib-int.h (borderline), | |
262 lwlib-utils.c (borderline), lwlib.c, lwlib.h. | |
263 | |
264 Copyright years before the advent of public CVS in 2001 were those | |
265 when I judged (from the CVS logs) that non-trivial amounts of change | |
266 had taken place. I also adjusted the existing FSF years in xlwmenu.c, | |
267 xlwmenu.h, and xlwmenuP.h on the same basis. | |
268 | |
269 Note that until Feb 2007, the following files in lwlib were lacking | |
270 notices: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h | |
271 | |
272 The following files did not list a Lucid copyright: xlwmenu.h, | |
273 xlwmenuP.h. | |
274 | |
275 To the best of our knowledge, all the code files in lwlib were | |
276 originally part of the Lucid Widget Library, even if they did not say | |
277 so explicitly. For example, they were all present in Lucid Emacs 19.1 | |
278 in 1992. The exceptions are the two Xaw files, which did not appear | |
279 till Lucid Emacs 19.9 in 1994. The file lwlib-Xaw.h is too trivial to | |
280 merit a copyright notice, but would presumably have the same one as | |
281 lwlib-Xaw.c. We have been unable to find a true standalone version of | |
282 LWL, if there was such a thing, to check definitively. | |
283 | |
284 To clarify the situation, in Feb 2007 we added Lucid copyrights and | |
285 GPL notices to those files lacking either that were non-trivial, | |
286 namely: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, xlwmenu.h, xlwmenuP.h. This represents | |
287 our best understanding of the legal status of these files. We also | |
288 clarified the notices in Makefile.in, which was originally the | |
289 Makefile auto-generated from Lucid's Imakefile. | |
290 | |
291 As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for | |
292 notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h. | |
293 | |
76246 | 294 The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as |
295 that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw | |
296 files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid | |
297 Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later, | |
298 but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2 | |
299 or later. These are the versions that were first installed in Emacs. | |
300 So in GNU Emacs, these two files have been under v2 or later since | |
301 1994. | |
76194 | 302 |
76246 | 303 It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later |
304 (excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license | |
305 we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices | |
306 originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later, | |
307 rms prefers that we do not do so. | |
308 | |
309 | |
77280 | 310 man/*.texi - All manuals should be under GFDL, and should include a |
311 copy of it, so that they can be distributed separately. faq.texi has | |
312 a different license, for some reason no-one can remember. | |
313 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00583.html | |
314 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00618.html | |
315 | |
316 | |
76246 | 317 msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie. |
318 Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in | |
319 is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of | |
320 these files. | |
75465 | 321 |
76194 | 322 |
323 oldXMenu/ | |
324 Keep the "copyright.h" method used by X11, rather than moving the | |
325 licenses into the files. Note that the original X10.h did not use | |
326 copyright.h, but had an explicit notice, which we retain. | |
327 | |
328 If you make non-trivial changes to a file which does not have an FSF | |
329 notice, add one and a GPL notice (as per Activate.c). If changes to a | |
330 file are reverted such that it becomes essentially the same as the | |
331 original X11 version, remove the FSF notice and GPL. | |
332 | |
333 Only the files which differ significantly from the original X11 | |
334 versions should have FSF copyright and GPL notices. At time of writing | |
335 (Feb 2007), this is: Activate.c, Create.c, Internal.c. I (rgm) | |
336 established this by diff'ing the current files against those in X11R1, | |
337 and when I found significant differences looking in the ChangeLog for | |
338 the years they originated (the CVS logs are truncated before 1999). I | |
339 therefore removed the FSF notices (added in 200x) from the other | |
340 files. There are some borderline cases IMO: AddSel.c, InsSel.c, | |
341 XMakeAssoc.c, XMenu.h. For these I erred on the side of NOT adding FSF | |
342 notices. | |
343 | |
344 With regards to whether the files we have changed should have GPL | |
345 added or not, rms says (2007-02-25, "oldXmenu issues"): | |
346 | |
347 It does not make much difference, because oldXmenu is obsolete | |
348 except for use in Emacs (and it is not normally used in Emacs any | |
349 more either). | |
350 | |
351 So, to make things simple, please put our changes under the GPL. | |
352 | |
353 insque.c had no copyright notice until 2005. The version of insque.c | |
354 added to Emacs 1992-01-27 is essentially the same as insremque.c added | |
355 to glic three days later by Roland McGrath, with an FSF copyright and | |
356 GPL, but no ChangeLog entry: | |
357 <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libc/misc/insremque.c?\ | |
358 rev=1.1&cvsroot=glibc> | |
359 To the best of his recollection, McGrath (who has a copyright | |
360 assignment) was the author of this file (email from roland at frob.com | |
361 to rms, 2007-02-23, "Where did insque.c come from?"). The FSF | |
362 copyright and GPL in this file are therefore correct as far as we | |
363 understand it. | |
364 | |
365 Imakefile had no legal info in Feb 2007, but was obviously based on | |
366 the X11 version (which also had no explicit legal info). As it was | |
367 unused, I removed it. It would have the same MIT copyright as | |
368 Makefile.in does now. | |
369 | |
370 | |
75465 | 371 src/gmalloc.c |
75539 | 372 - contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone. |
373 | |
75766 | 374 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h |
75765 | 375 - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs |
376 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards. | |
377 | |
378 | |
75911 | 379 ** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only |
380 | |
76461 | 381 etc/TERMS |
382 rms: "surely written either by me or by ESR. (If you can figure out | |
383 which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers | |
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385 conclude it was written by me." |
76461 | 386 |
387 etc/ulimit.hack | |
388 Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author | |
389 is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs | |
390 assignment. Trivial anyway. | |
391 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\ | |
392 9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb | |
393 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4 | |
394 (original 1987 source) | |
395 | |
75934 | 396 lisp/term/README |
397 - had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was | |
398 written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said: | |
399 | |
400 I don't remember writing it, but it reads like my prose and I believe | |
401 I wrote the feature(s) it's describing. So I would have been the | |
402 likeliest person to write it. | |
403 | |
404 Odds are that I did, but I'm not certain. | |
405 | |
406 Accordingly, FSF copyright was added. | |
407 | |
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409 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00138.html |
76678 | 410 - briefly removed due to legal uncertainly Jan-Mar 2007. The |
411 relevant assignment is under "hp9k800" in copyright.list. File was | |
412 written by John V. Morris at HP, and disclaimed by the author and | |
413 HP. So this file is public domain. | |
414 | |
75911 | 415 |
77135 | 416 K Rodgers changes |
417 It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and | |
418 ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact | |
419 him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite | |
420 initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his | |
421 changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see | |
422 threads: | |
423 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html | |
424 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00257.html | |
425 | |
77609 | 426 But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22: |
427 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html | |
428 | |
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431 Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem: |
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434 On consultation with a lawyer, we found there was no problem: |
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75946 | 438 ** Issues that are "fixed" for the release of Emacs 22, but we may |
439 wish to revisit later in more detail | |
440 | |
441 | |
76037 | 442 admin/check-doc-strings |
443 File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so. | |
444 | |
76431 | 445 etc/BABYL |
446 File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them | |
76358 | 447 without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be |
448 ready to remove these files if the authors ever object. | |
76037 | 449 |
76431 | 450 etc/ms-kermit |
75989 | 451 etc/e/eterm-color.ti |
75946 | 452 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h |
453 On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added | |
76431 | 454 to these files in Feb/Mar 2007: |
75946 | 455 |
456 The code here is forced by the interface, and is not subject to | |
457 copyright, constituting the only possible expression of the | |
458 algorithm in this format. | |
459 | |
460 With the addition of this notice, these files are OK for the | |
461 upcoming Emacs-22 release. Post-release, we can revisit this issue | |
462 and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files. | |
463 (details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03). | |
464 | |
76461 | 465 etc/ms-7bkermit |
466 Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for | |
467 either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like | |
468 ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has | |
469 other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007. | |
470 Re-add if clear up status at some point. | |
471 | |
472 etc/Xkeymap.txt | |
473 No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is | |
474 RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think | |
475 it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we | |
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76617 | 477 assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv |
478 says it is obsolete: | |
479 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html> | |
75946 | 480 |
481 src/m/mips4.h, news-risc.h, pmax.h | |
482 src/s/aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix4-0.h, irix5-0.h, | |
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483 netbsd.h, sol2-3.h, usg5-4-2.h |
75946 | 484 - all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights |
485 till Feb 2007, when FSF copyright was added. Matt Norwood advised: | |
486 | |
487 For now, I think the best policy is to assume that we do have | |
488 assignments from the authors (I recall many of these header files | |
489 as having been originally written by rms), and to attach an FSF | |
490 copyright with GPL notice. We can amend this if and when we | |
491 complete the code audit. Any additions to these files by | |
492 non-assigned authors are arguably "de minimis" contributions to | |
493 Emacs: small changes or suggestions to a work that are subsumed in | |
494 the main authors' copyright in the entire work. | |
495 | |
496 Here is my (rgm) take on the details of the above files: | |
497 | |
498 mips4.h | |
499 might be trivial? started trivial, been added to in tiny changes by | |
500 those with FSF assignment, often result of email suggestions by others. | |
501 | |
502 news-risc.h | |
503 started trivial. Grown by tiny additions, plus chunk | |
504 from mips.h, which was and is Copyright FSF | |
505 | |
506 pmax.h | |
507 started trivial. grown in tiny changes, except for maybe Jim Wilson's | |
508 comment. | |
509 | |
510 ? irix4-0.h | |
511 I would say started non-trivial (1992, rms). only tiny changes since | |
512 installed. | |
513 | |
514 ? irix5-0.h | |
515 I would say started non-trivial (1993, jimb, heavily based | |
516 on irix4-0.h). A few borderline non-tiny changes since. | |
517 | |
518 usg5-4-2.h | |
519 started non-trivial, but was heavily based on usg5-4.h, which was and is | |
520 copyright FSF. only tiny changes since installed. | |
521 | |
522 sol2-3.h | |
523 started trivial. only non-tiny change (1994) incorporated code from | |
524 usg5-4.h, which was and is copyright FSF. | |
525 | |
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75946 | 527 started trivial, grown in tiny changes. |
528 | |
76011 | 529 netbsd.h: |
530 Roland McGrath said to rms (2007/02/17): "I don't really remember | |
531 anything about it. If I put it in without other comment, then probably | |
532 I wrote it myself." | |
533 | |
75946 | 534 |
75966 | 535 Someone might want to tweak the copyright years (for dates before |
536 2001) that I used in all these files. | |
537 | |
538 Note: erring on the side of caution, I also added notices to some | |
539 files I thought might be considered non-trivial (if one includes | |
540 comment) in s/: | |
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75966 | 543 |
544 (everything with > 30 non-blank lines, which at least is _some_ kind of | |
545 system) | |
546 | |
547 | |
75765 | 548 *** These are copyright issues that need not be fixed until after |
549 Emacs 22 is released (though if they can be fixed before, that is | |
550 obviously good): | |
551 | |
552 | |
553 Is it OK to just `cvs remove' a file for legal reasons, or is | |
554 something more drastic needed? A removed file is still available from | |
555 CVS, if suitable options are applied. (This CVS issue obviously does | |
556 not affect a release). | |
557 rms: will ask lawyer | |
558 | |
559 | |
75865 | 560 Make sure that all files with non-standard copyrights or licenses are |
561 noted in this file. | |
562 | |
563 | |
76034 | 564 REMOVED etc/gnu.xpm, nt/icons/emacs21.ico, nt/icons/sink.ico |
565 - Restore if find legal info. emacs21.ico is not due to Davenport. | |
77135 | 566 Geoff Voelker checked but could not find a record of where it came |
567 from. | |
76037 | 568 |
76034 | 569 |
75791 | 570 etc/images |
571 Image files from GTK, Gnome are under GPLv2 (no "or later"?). RMS will | |
572 contact image authors in regards to future switch to v3. | |
573 | |
75765 | 574 |
75926 | 575 etc/TUTORIAL* (translations) |
576 switch to GPL (see english TUTORIAL) | |
577 rms: "We can leave the TUTORIAL translations alone until their | |
578 maintainers update them." | |
76034 | 579 Can adapt short license text from end of GPL translations at: |
76012 | 580 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html |
76034 | 581 Only a few sentences around the license notice need changing from |
582 previous version. | |
583 Done: TUTORIAL.eo | |
75865 | 584 |
75465 | 585 |
76271 | 586 *** These are copyright issues still to be addressed: |
587 | |
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593 The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25. |
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595 Some notes: |
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600 of writing) GPL >= 2. rms says may as well leave the licenses of these |
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601 alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are: |
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603 Gnulib: |
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604 src/getloadavg.c |
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605 src/gmalloc.c |
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606 src/md5.c |
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614 config.guess |
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651 etc/images/mail/README |
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663 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
664 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
665 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
666 GNU General Public License for more details. | |
667 | |
668 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
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