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author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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1 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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5 NOTES ON COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES
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7 Some terminology:
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9 A "copyright notice" consists of one or a few lines of this format:
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10 "Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
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12 A "license notice" is a statement of permissions, and is usually much
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13 longer, eg the text "GNU Emacs is free software...".
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18 1. Don't add code to Emacs written by someone other than yourself
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19 without thinking about the legal aspect. Even if the changes are
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20 trivial, consider if they combine with previous changes by the same
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21 author to make a non-trivial total. If so, make sure they have an
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22 assignment. If adding a whole file adjust the copyright statements in
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23 the file.
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25 2. When installing code written by someone else, the ChangeLog entry
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26 should be in the name of the author of the code, not the person who
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27 installs it. I think it is helpful to put the author (if not yourself)
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28 in the CVS log as well; and to not install any of your own changes in
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31 3. With images, add the legal info to a README file in the directory
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35 legal notices, consider if you should add a copyright statement.
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37 5. Please don't just add an FSF copyright without checking that is the
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38 right thing to do.
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41 Every non-trivial file distributed through the Emacs CVS should be
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42 self-explanatory in terms of copyright and license. This includes
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43 files that are not distributed in Emacs releases (for example, the
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44 admin/ directory), because the whole Emacs CVS is publicly
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45 available.
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47 The definition of triviality is a little vague, but a rule of thumb is
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48 that any file with less than 15 lines of actual content is trivial. If
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49 a file is auto-generated (eg ldefs-boot.el) from another one in the
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50 CVS, then it does not really matter about adding a copyright statement
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51 to the generated file.
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53 Legal advice says that we could, if we wished, put a license notice
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54 even in trivial files, because copyright law in general looks at the
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55 overall work as a whole. It is not _necessary_ to do so, and rms
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56 prefers that we do not. This means one needs to take care that trivial
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57 files do not grow and become non-trivial without having a license
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58 added. NB consequently, if you add a lot of text to a small file,
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59 consider whether your changes have made the file worthy of a copyright
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60 notice, and if so, please add one.
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62 It can be helpful to put a reminder comment at the start of a trivial
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63 file, eg: "add a license notice if this grows to > 10 lines of code".
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65 The years in the copyright notice should be updated every year (see
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66 file "years" in this directory). The PS versions of refcards etc
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67 should display copyright notices (an exception to the rule about
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68 "generated" files), but these can just display the latest year. The
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69 full list of years should be kept in comments in the source file. If
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70 these are distributed in CVS, check in a regenerated version when the
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71 tex files are updated.
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72
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73 Copyright changes should be propagated to any associated repositories
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74 (eg Gnus, MH-E), but I think in every case this happens automatically
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75 (?).
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77 All README (and other such text files) that are non-trivial should
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78 contain copyright statements and GPL license notices, exactly as .el
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79 files do (see e.g. README in the top-level directory). Before 2007,
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80 we used a simple, short statement permitting copying and modification
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81 provided legal notices were retained. In Feb 2007 we switched to the
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82 standard GPL text, on legal advice. Some older text files in etc/
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83 should, however, keep their current licenses (see below for list).
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85 For image files, the copyright and license details should be recorded
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86 in a README file in each directory with images. (Legal advice says
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87 that we need not add notices to each image file individually, if they
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88 allow for that.). It is recommended to use the word "convert" to
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89 describe the automatic process of changing an image from one format to
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90 another (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00618.html).
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93 When installing a file with an "unusual" license (after checking first
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94 it is ok), put a copy of the copyright and license in the file (if
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95 possible. It's ok if this makes the file incompatible with its
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96 original format, if it can still be used by Emacs), or in a README
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97 file in the relevant directory.
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99 The vast majority of files are copyright FSF and distributed under the
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100 GPL. A few files (mainly related to language and charset support) are
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101 copyright AIST alone, or both AIST and FSF. (Contact Kenichi Handa
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102 with questions about legal issues in such files.) In all these cases,
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103 the copyright years in each file should be updated each year.
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104
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105 There are some exceptions to the points in the previous paragraph, and
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106 these are listed below for reference, together with any files where
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107 the copyright needs to be updated in "unusual" ways.
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109 If you find any other such cases, please consult to check they are ok,
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110 and note them in this file. This includes missing copyright notices,
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111 and "odd" copyright holders. In most cases, individual authors should
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112 not appear in copyright statements. Either the copyright has been
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113 assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in which case the original
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114 author should be removed and the year(s) transferred to the FSF); or
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115 else it is possible the file should not be in Emacs at all (please
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116 report!).
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119 or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes
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120 from others, without recording the true authorship.
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123 rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".]
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126 lib-src/etags.c # print_version
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127 lib-src/rcs2log # Copyright
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128 lisp/calc/calc-help.el # calc-full-help
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129 lisp/startup.el # fancy-splash-tail
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130 mac/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
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131 mac/src/Emacs.r # resource 'vers'
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132 src/emacs.c
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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.
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138 - this file is copyright MIT, which is OK. Leave the copyright alone.
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141 public domain, leave alone.
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143 etc/BABYL, ms-kermit
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144 no notices (see below).
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151 enough to not need license.
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153 etc/future-bug
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154 - doesn't need a humourless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we
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155 can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
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156 Emacs changes. (email to rgm "[Emacs-commit] emacs/etc future-bug",
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157 2007028)
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163 etc/FTP, ORDERS
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164 - trivial (at time of writing), no license needed
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167 WHY-FREE
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168 rms: "These are statements of opinion or testimony. Their licenses
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170 licenses that they have. They are distributed with Emacs but they
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171 are not part of Emacs."
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174 standard notices. Just a note that although the file itself is not
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175 really copyrightable, in the wider context of it being part of
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176 Emacs (and written by those with assignments), a standard notice is
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177 fine.
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179 etc/MAILINGLISTS
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180 rms: simple license is fine for this file
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183 ETZY.tit, PY-b5.tit, Punct-b5.tit, Punct.tit, QJ-b5.tit, QJ.tit,
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184 SW.tit, TONEPY.tit, ZOZY.tit
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188 pinyin.map, ziranma.cin
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190 Note that pinyin.map, ziranma.cin (and hence the generated
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191 leim/quail/PY.el, ZIRANMA.el) are under GPLv1 or later.
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198 Copyright information is duplicated in etc/ETAGS.README. Update that
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199 file too.
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200
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201 Until 2007 etags.c was described as being copyright FSF and Ken Arnold.
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202 After some investigation in Feb 2007, then to the best of our
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203 knowledge we believe that the original 1984 Emacs version was based
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204 on the version in BSD4.2. See for example this 1985 post from Ken Arnold:
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205 <http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ffe5c55845a640a9>
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206 I have received enough requests for the current source to ctags
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207 to post it. Here is the latest version (what will go out with
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208 4.3, modulo any bugs fixed during the beta period). It is the
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209 4.2 ctags with recognition of yacc and lex tags added.
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211 See also a 1984 version of ctags (no copyright) posted to net.sources:
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212 <http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/msg/a21b6c21be12a98d>
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213 Version of etags.c in emacs-16.56 duplicates comment typos.
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215 Accordingly, in Feb 2007 we added a 1984 copyright for the
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216 University of California and a revised BSD license. The terms of
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217 this require that the full license details be available in binary
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218 distributions - hence the file etc/ETAGS.README. The fact that the
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219 --version output just says "Copyright <year> FSF" is apparently OK
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220 from a legal point of view.
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225 lisp/play/tetris.el
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226 - no special rules about the copyright. We note here that we believe
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227 (2007/1) there is no problem with our use of the name "tetris" or
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228 the concept.
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229 rms: "My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable."
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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.
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234 man/doclicense.texi
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241 lwlib/
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242 rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider
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243 it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib."
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245 NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see
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248 FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone
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249 non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid
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250 Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to
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251 a file with no FSF copyright, you should add one. Also, if changes are
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252 reverted to the extent that a file becomes basically the same as the
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253 original version, the FSF copyright should be removed.
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255 In my (rgm) opinion, as of Feb 2007, all the non-trivial files differ
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256 significantly from the original versions, with the exception of
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257 lwlib-Xm.h. Most of the changes that were made to this file have
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258 subsequently been reverted. Therefore I removed the FSF copyright from
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259 this file (which is arguably too trivial to merit a notice anyway). I
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260 added FSF copyright to the following files which did not have them
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261 already: Makefile.in, lwlib-Xaw.c, lwlib-int.h (borderline),
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262 lwlib-utils.c (borderline), lwlib.c, lwlib.h.
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264 Copyright years before the advent of public CVS in 2001 were those
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265 when I judged (from the CVS logs) that non-trivial amounts of change
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266 had taken place. I also adjusted the existing FSF years in xlwmenu.c,
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267 xlwmenu.h, and xlwmenuP.h on the same basis.
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269 Note that until Feb 2007, the following files in lwlib were lacking
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270 notices: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h
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272 The following files did not list a Lucid copyright: xlwmenu.h,
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273 xlwmenuP.h.
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275 To the best of our knowledge, all the code files in lwlib were
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276 originally part of the Lucid Widget Library, even if they did not say
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277 so explicitly. For example, they were all present in Lucid Emacs 19.1
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278 in 1992. The exceptions are the two Xaw files, which did not appear
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279 till Lucid Emacs 19.9 in 1994. The file lwlib-Xaw.h is too trivial to
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280 merit a copyright notice, but would presumably have the same one as
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281 lwlib-Xaw.c. We have been unable to find a true standalone version of
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282 LWL, if there was such a thing, to check definitively.
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284 To clarify the situation, in Feb 2007 we added Lucid copyrights and
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285 GPL notices to those files lacking either that were non-trivial,
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286 namely: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, xlwmenu.h, xlwmenuP.h. This represents
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287 our best understanding of the legal status of these files. We also
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288 clarified the notices in Makefile.in, which was originally the
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289 Makefile auto-generated from Lucid's Imakefile.
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291 As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for
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292 notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h.
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294 The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as
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295 that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw
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296 files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid
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297 Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later,
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298 but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2
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300 So in GNU Emacs, these two files have been under v2 or later since
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303 It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later
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304 (excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license
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305 we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices
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306 originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later,
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307 rms prefers that we do not do so.
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310 man/*.texi - All manuals should be under GFDL, and should include a
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311 copy of it, so that they can be distributed separately. faq.texi has
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312 a different license, for some reason no-one can remember.
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313 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00583.html
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314 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00618.html
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317 msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie.
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318 Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in
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319 is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of
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320 these files.
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323 oldXMenu/
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324 Keep the "copyright.h" method used by X11, rather than moving the
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325 licenses into the files. Note that the original X10.h did not use
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326 copyright.h, but had an explicit notice, which we retain.
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327
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328 If you make non-trivial changes to a file which does not have an FSF
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329 notice, add one and a GPL notice (as per Activate.c). If changes to a
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330 file are reverted such that it becomes essentially the same as the
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331 original X11 version, remove the FSF notice and GPL.
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333 Only the files which differ significantly from the original X11
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334 versions should have FSF copyright and GPL notices. At time of writing
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335 (Feb 2007), this is: Activate.c, Create.c, Internal.c. I (rgm)
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336 established this by diff'ing the current files against those in X11R1,
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337 and when I found significant differences looking in the ChangeLog for
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338 the years they originated (the CVS logs are truncated before 1999). I
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339 therefore removed the FSF notices (added in 200x) from the other
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340 files. There are some borderline cases IMO: AddSel.c, InsSel.c,
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341 XMakeAssoc.c, XMenu.h. For these I erred on the side of NOT adding FSF
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342 notices.
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343
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344 With regards to whether the files we have changed should have GPL
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345 added or not, rms says (2007-02-25, "oldXmenu issues"):
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346
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347 It does not make much difference, because oldXmenu is obsolete
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348 except for use in Emacs (and it is not normally used in Emacs any
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349 more either).
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350
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351 So, to make things simple, please put our changes under the GPL.
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353 insque.c had no copyright notice until 2005. The version of insque.c
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354 added to Emacs 1992-01-27 is essentially the same as insremque.c added
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355 to glic three days later by Roland McGrath, with an FSF copyright and
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356 GPL, but no ChangeLog entry:
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357 <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libc/misc/insremque.c?\
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358 rev=1.1&cvsroot=glibc>
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359 To the best of his recollection, McGrath (who has a copyright
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360 assignment) was the author of this file (email from roland at frob.com
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361 to rms, 2007-02-23, "Where did insque.c come from?"). The FSF
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362 copyright and GPL in this file are therefore correct as far as we
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363 understand it.
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364
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365 Imakefile had no legal info in Feb 2007, but was obviously based on
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366 the X11 version (which also had no explicit legal info). As it was
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367 unused, I removed it. It would have the same MIT copyright as
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368 Makefile.in does now.
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372 - contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
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374 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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375 - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
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376 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
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379 ** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
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381 etc/TERMS
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382 rms: "surely written either by me or by ESR. (If you can figure out
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383 which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers
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384 for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
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385 conclude it was written by me."
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387 etc/ulimit.hack
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388 Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
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389 is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
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390 assignment. Trivial anyway.
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391 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
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392 9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
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393 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
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394 (original 1987 source)
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396 lisp/term/README
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397 - had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
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398 written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
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400 I don't remember writing it, but it reads like my prose and I believe
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401 I wrote the feature(s) it's describing. So I would have been the
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402 likeliest person to write it.
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403
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404 Odds are that I did, but I'm not certain.
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405
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406 Accordingly, FSF copyright was added.
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409 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00138.html
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410 - briefly removed due to legal uncertainly Jan-Mar 2007. The
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411 relevant assignment is under "hp9k800" in copyright.list. File was
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412 written by John V. Morris at HP, and disclaimed by the author and
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413 HP. So this file is public domain.
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416 K Rodgers changes
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417 It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
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418 ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
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419 him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
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420 initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
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421 changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
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422 threads:
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423 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
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426 But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
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427 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
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430 lisp/progmodes/python.el
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431 Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
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432 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
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433
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434 On consultation with a lawyer, we found there was no problem:
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435 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html
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438 ** Issues that are "fixed" for the release of Emacs 22, but we may
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439 wish to revisit later in more detail
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442 admin/check-doc-strings
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443 File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
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445 etc/BABYL
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446 File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
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447 without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
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448 ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
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450 etc/ms-kermit
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451 etc/e/eterm-color.ti
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452 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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453 On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
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454 to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
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456 The code here is forced by the interface, and is not subject to
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457 copyright, constituting the only possible expression of the
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458 algorithm in this format.
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459
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460 With the addition of this notice, these files are OK for the
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461 upcoming Emacs-22 release. Post-release, we can revisit this issue
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462 and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
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463 (details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
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465 etc/ms-7bkermit
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466 Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
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467 either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
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468 ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
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469 other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
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470 Re-add if clear up status at some point.
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471
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472 etc/Xkeymap.txt
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473 No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
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474 RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
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475 it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
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476 can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
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477 assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
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478 says it is obsolete:
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479 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
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481 src/m/mips4.h, news-risc.h, pmax.h
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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
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484 - all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights
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485 till Feb 2007, when FSF copyright was added. Matt Norwood advised:
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486
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487 For now, I think the best policy is to assume that we do have
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488 assignments from the authors (I recall many of these header files
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489 as having been originally written by rms), and to attach an FSF
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490 copyright with GPL notice. We can amend this if and when we
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491 complete the code audit. Any additions to these files by
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492 non-assigned authors are arguably "de minimis" contributions to
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493 Emacs: small changes or suggestions to a work that are subsumed in
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494 the main authors' copyright in the entire work.
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495
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496 Here is my (rgm) take on the details of the above files:
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497
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498 mips4.h
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499 might be trivial? started trivial, been added to in tiny changes by
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500 those with FSF assignment, often result of email suggestions by others.
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501
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502 news-risc.h
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503 started trivial. Grown by tiny additions, plus chunk
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504 from mips.h, which was and is Copyright FSF
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505
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506 pmax.h
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507 started trivial. grown in tiny changes, except for maybe Jim Wilson's
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508 comment.
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509
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510 ? irix4-0.h
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511 I would say started non-trivial (1992, rms). only tiny changes since
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512 installed.
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513
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514 ? irix5-0.h
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515 I would say started non-trivial (1993, jimb, heavily based
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516 on irix4-0.h). A few borderline non-tiny changes since.
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517
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518 usg5-4-2.h
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519 started non-trivial, but was heavily based on usg5-4.h, which was and is
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520 copyright FSF. only tiny changes since installed.
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521
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522 sol2-3.h
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523 started trivial. only non-tiny change (1994) incorporated code from
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524 usg5-4.h, which was and is copyright FSF.
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525
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526 aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, netbsd.h
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527 started trivial, grown in tiny changes.
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529 netbsd.h:
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530 Roland McGrath said to rms (2007/02/17): "I don't really remember
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531 anything about it. If I put it in without other comment, then probably
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532 I wrote it myself."
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535 Someone might want to tweak the copyright years (for dates before
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536 2001) that I used in all these files.
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537
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538 Note: erring on the side of caution, I also added notices to some
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539 files I thought might be considered non-trivial (if one includes
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540 comment) in s/:
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541 aix4-1.h hpux10.h irix6-0.h irix6-5.h
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542 ptx4.h sol2.h
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543
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544 (everything with > 30 non-blank lines, which at least is _some_ kind of
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545 system)
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546
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548 *** These are copyright issues that need not be fixed until after
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549 Emacs 22 is released (though if they can be fixed before, that is
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550 obviously good):
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551
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552
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553 Is it OK to just `cvs remove' a file for legal reasons, or is
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554 something more drastic needed? A removed file is still available from
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555 CVS, if suitable options are applied. (This CVS issue obviously does
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556 not affect a release).
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557 rms: will ask lawyer
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558
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560 Make sure that all files with non-standard copyrights or licenses are
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561 noted in this file.
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562
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564 REMOVED etc/gnu.xpm, nt/icons/emacs21.ico, nt/icons/sink.ico
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565 - Restore if find legal info. emacs21.ico is not due to Davenport.
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566 Geoff Voelker checked but could not find a record of where it came
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567 from.
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570 etc/images
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571 Image files from GTK, Gnome are under GPLv2 (no "or later"?). RMS will
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572 contact image authors in regards to future switch to v3.
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575 etc/TUTORIAL* (translations)
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576 switch to GPL (see english TUTORIAL)
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577 rms: "We can leave the TUTORIAL translations alone until their
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578 maintainers update them."
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579 Can adapt short license text from end of GPL translations at:
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580 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html
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581 Only a few sentences around the license notice need changing from
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582 previous version.
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583 Done: TUTORIAL.eo
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584
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586 *** These are copyright issues still to be addressed:
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588 None known.
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591 ** NOTES ON RELICENSING TO GPL3
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592
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593 The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25.
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594
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595 Some notes:
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596 (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01431.html)
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598 1. There are some files in Emacs CVS which are not part of Emacs (eg
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601 alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are:
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602
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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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607 src/md5.h
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608 src/mktime.c
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609 src/strftime.c
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610 src/termcap.c
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611 src/tparam.c
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612
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613 Others:
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614 config.guess
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615 config.sub
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616 lispintro/missing
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617 man/texinfo.tex
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618
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619 Note _not_ included in the above are src/regex.{c,h} (rms: "That
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620 forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that."), and
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621 oldXMenu/insque.c (rms: "We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so
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622 definitely relicense that.").
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623
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624 2. The files that are copyright FSF and AIST, or AIST alone, should be
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625 and were updated, ditto the oldXMenu files with FSF copyright, and
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626 msdos/is_exec.c and sigaction.c.
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627
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628 3. lwlib/
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629
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630 Files originally in Lucid Widget Library were left alone (excludes
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631 ChangeLog, etc), ie remain under GPL v1 or later, or v2 or later.
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632 (rms: "We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to
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633 change it much.")
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634
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635 4. There are some files where the FSF holds no copyright. These were
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636 left alone:
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637
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638 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html >= v2
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639 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html >= v2
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640 (above included in lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el)
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641 leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map >= v1
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642 leim/MISC-DIC/ziranma.cin >= v1
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643 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L >= v2
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644 leim/SKK-DIC/README >= v2
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645 leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el >= v2
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646
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647 5. At time of writing, some non-Emacs icons included from Gnome remain
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648 under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See:
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649
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650 etc/images/gnus/README
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651 etc/images/mail/README
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652 etc/images/README
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653 nt/icons/README
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656 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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657
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658 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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659 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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660 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
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661 any later version.
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662
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663 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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664 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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665 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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666 GNU General Public License for more details.
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668 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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669 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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670 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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