annotate admin/notes/copyright @ 102631:f13c449487ad

(Fuser_login_name): Support float arguments. Doc fix.
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1 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 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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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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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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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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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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65 The years in the copyright notice should be updated every year (see
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66 file "years" in this directory). The PDF 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 lisp/version.el # emacs-copyright
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127 lib-src/ebrowse.c # version
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128 lib-src/etags.c # print_version
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129 lib-src/rcs2log # Copyright
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130 Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist
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131 Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
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132 GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
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133 `set-copyright' in admin.el will do all the above.
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136 lispintro/install-sh
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137 - this file is copyright MIT, which is OK. Leave the copyright alone.
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140 public domain, leave alone.
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142 etc/refcards/*.tex
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143 also update the \def\year macro for the latest year.
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146 no notices (see below).
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153 enough to not need license.
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157 can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
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158 Emacs changes. (email to rgm "[Emacs-commit] emacs/etc future-bug",
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162 - trivial, no notice needed.
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165 etc/FTP, ORDERS
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166 - trivial (at time of writing), no license needed
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169 WHY-FREE
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170 rms: "These are statements of opinion or testimony. Their licenses
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171 should permit verbatim copying only. Please don't change the
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172 licenses that they have. They are distributed with Emacs but they
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173 are not part of Emacs."
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176 standard notices. Just a note that although the file itself is not
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177 really copyrightable, in the wider context of it being part of
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178 Emacs (and written by those with assignments), a standard notice is
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179 fine.
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182 rms: simple license is fine for this file
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185 ETZY.tit, PY-b5.tit, Punct-b5.tit, Punct.tit, QJ-b5.tit, QJ.tit,
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186 SW.tit, TONEPY.tit, ZOZY.tit
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190 pinyin.map, ziranma.cin
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192 Note that pinyin.map, ziranma.cin (and hence the generated
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193 leim/quail/PY.el, ZIRANMA.el) are under GPLv1 or later.
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200 Copyright information is duplicated in etc/ETAGS.README. Update that
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201 file too.
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202
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203 Until 2007 etags.c was described as being copyright FSF and Ken Arnold.
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204 After some investigation in Feb 2007, then to the best of our
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205 knowledge we believe that the original 1984 Emacs version was based
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206 on the version in BSD4.2. See for example this 1985 post from Ken Arnold:
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207 <http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ffe5c55845a640a9>
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208 I have received enough requests for the current source to ctags
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209 to post it. Here is the latest version (what will go out with
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210 4.3, modulo any bugs fixed during the beta period). It is the
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211 4.2 ctags with recognition of yacc and lex tags added.
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213 See also a 1984 version of ctags (no copyright) posted to net.sources:
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214 <http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/msg/a21b6c21be12a98d>
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215 Version of etags.c in emacs-16.56 duplicates comment typos.
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217 Accordingly, in Feb 2007 we added a 1984 copyright for the
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218 University of California and a revised BSD license. The terms of
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219 this require that the full license details be available in binary
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220 distributions - hence the file etc/ETAGS.README. The fact that the
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221 --version output just says "Copyright <year> FSF" is apparently OK
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222 from a legal point of view.
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228 - no special rules about the copyright. We note here that we believe
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229 (2007/1) there is no problem with our use of the name "tetris" or
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230 the concept.
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231 rms: "My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable."
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232 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00960.html>
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233 rms: Legal advice is that we are ok and need not worry about this.
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240 lwlib/
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241 rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider
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242 it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib."
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244 NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see
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247 FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone
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248 non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid
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249 Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to
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250 a file with no FSF copyright, you should add one. Also, if changes are
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251 reverted to the extent that a file becomes basically the same as the
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252 original version, the FSF copyright should be removed.
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254 In my (rgm) opinion, as of Feb 2007, all the non-trivial files differ
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255 significantly from the original versions, with the exception of
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256 lwlib-Xm.h. Most of the changes that were made to this file have
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257 subsequently been reverted. Therefore I removed the FSF copyright from
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258 this file (which is arguably too trivial to merit a notice anyway). I
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259 added FSF copyright to the following files which did not have them
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260 already: Makefile.in, lwlib-Xaw.c, lwlib-int.h (borderline),
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261 lwlib-utils.c (borderline), lwlib.c, lwlib.h.
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263 Copyright years before the advent of public CVS in 2001 were those
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264 when I judged (from the CVS logs) that non-trivial amounts of change
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265 had taken place. I also adjusted the existing FSF years in xlwmenu.c,
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266 xlwmenu.h, and xlwmenuP.h on the same basis.
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268 Note that until Feb 2007, the following files in lwlib were lacking
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269 notices: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h
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271 The following files did not list a Lucid copyright: xlwmenu.h,
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272 xlwmenuP.h.
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274 To the best of our knowledge, all the code files in lwlib were
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275 originally part of the Lucid Widget Library, even if they did not say
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276 so explicitly. For example, they were all present in Lucid Emacs 19.1
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277 in 1992. The exceptions are the two Xaw files, which did not appear
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278 till Lucid Emacs 19.9 in 1994. The file lwlib-Xaw.h is too trivial to
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279 merit a copyright notice, but would presumably have the same one as
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280 lwlib-Xaw.c. We have been unable to find a true standalone version of
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281 LWL, if there was such a thing, to check definitively.
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283 To clarify the situation, in Feb 2007 we added Lucid copyrights and
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284 GPL notices to those files lacking either that were non-trivial,
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285 namely: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, xlwmenu.h, xlwmenuP.h. This represents
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286 our best understanding of the legal status of these files. We also
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287 clarified the notices in Makefile.in, which was originally the
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288 Makefile auto-generated from Lucid's Imakefile.
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290 As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for
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291 notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h.
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293 The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as
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294 that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw
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295 files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid
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296 Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later,
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297 but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2
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302 It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later
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303 (excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license
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304 we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices
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305 originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later,
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306 rms prefers that we do not do so.
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309 doc/*/doclicense.texi
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310 - leave the copyright alone in this imported file.
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312 doc/*/*.texi - All manuals should be under GFDL (but see below), and
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313 should include a copy of it, so that they can be distributed
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314 separately. faq.texi has a different license, for some reason no-one
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315 can remember.
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316 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00583.html
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317 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00618.html
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319 doc/misc/mh-e.texi is dual-licensed (GPL and GFDL) per agreement with
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320 FSF (reconfirmed by rms Aug 25 2008). Discussion with
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321 licensing@fsf.org starting on Thu, 07 Aug 2003 with subject:
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322 "[gnu.org #58812] Changing license of MH-E manual"
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325 msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie.
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326 Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in
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327 is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of
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328 these files.
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331 oldXMenu/
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332 Keep the "copyright.h" method used by X11, rather than moving the
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333 licenses into the files. Note that the original X10.h did not use
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334 copyright.h, but had an explicit notice, which we retain.
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335
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336 If you make non-trivial changes to a file which does not have an FSF
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337 notice, add one and a GPL notice (as per Activate.c). If changes to a
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338 file are reverted such that it becomes essentially the same as the
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339 original X11 version, remove the FSF notice and GPL.
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341 Only the files which differ significantly from the original X11
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342 versions should have FSF copyright and GPL notices. At time of writing
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343 (Feb 2007), this is: Activate.c, Create.c, Internal.c. I (rgm)
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344 established this by diff'ing the current files against those in X11R1,
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345 and when I found significant differences looking in the ChangeLog for
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346 the years they originated (the CVS logs are truncated before 1999). I
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347 therefore removed the FSF notices (added in 200x) from the other
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348 files. There are some borderline cases IMO: AddSel.c, InsSel.c,
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349 XMakeAssoc.c, XMenu.h. For these I erred on the side of NOT adding FSF
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350 notices.
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351
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352 With regards to whether the files we have changed should have GPL
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353 added or not, rms says (2007-02-25, "oldXmenu issues"):
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354
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355 It does not make much difference, because oldXmenu is obsolete
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356 except for use in Emacs (and it is not normally used in Emacs any
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357 more either).
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358
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359 So, to make things simple, please put our changes under the GPL.
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361 insque.c had no copyright notice until 2005. The version of insque.c
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362 added to Emacs 1992-01-27 is essentially the same as insremque.c added
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363 to glic three days later by Roland McGrath, with an FSF copyright and
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364 GPL, but no ChangeLog entry:
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365 <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libc/misc/insremque.c?\
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366 rev=1.1&cvsroot=glibc>
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367 To the best of his recollection, McGrath (who has a copyright
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368 assignment) was the author of this file (email from roland at frob.com
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369 to rms, 2007-02-23, "Where did insque.c come from?"). The FSF
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370 copyright and GPL in this file are therefore correct as far as we
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371 understand it.
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372
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373 Imakefile had no legal info in Feb 2007, but was obviously based on
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374 the X11 version (which also had no explicit legal info). As it was
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375 unused, I removed it. It would have the same MIT copyright as
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376 Makefile.in does now.
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377
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378
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379 src/gmalloc.c
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380 - contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
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382 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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383 - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
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384 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
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387 ** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
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389 etc/TERMS
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390 rms: "surely written either by me or by ESR. (If you can figure out
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391 which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers
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392 for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
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393 conclude it was written by me."
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395 etc/ulimit.hack
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396 Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
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397 is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
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398 assignment. Trivial anyway.
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399 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
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400 9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
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401 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
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402 (original 1987 source)
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404 lisp/term/README
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405 - had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
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406 written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
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407
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408 I don't remember writing it, but it reads like my prose and I believe
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409 I wrote the feature(s) it's describing. So I would have been the
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410 likeliest person to write it.
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411
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412 Odds are that I did, but I'm not certain.
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413
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414 Accordingly, FSF copyright was added.
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417 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00138.html
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418 - briefly removed due to legal uncertainly Jan-Mar 2007. The
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419 relevant assignment is under "hp9k800" in copyright.list. File was
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420 written by John V. Morris at HP, and disclaimed by the author and
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421 HP. So this file is public domain.
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424 K Rodgers changes
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425 It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
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426 ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
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427 him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
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428 initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
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429 changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
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430 threads:
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431 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
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434 But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
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435 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
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438 lisp/progmodes/python.el
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439 Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
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440 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
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441
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442 On consultation with a lawyer, we found there was no problem:
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443 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html
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446 ** Issues that are "fixed" for the release of Emacs 22, but we may
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447 wish to revisit later in more detail
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450 admin/check-doc-strings
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451 File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
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453 etc/BABYL
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454 File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
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455 without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
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456 ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
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457
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458 etc/ms-kermit
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459 etc/e/eterm-color.ti
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460 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
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461 On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
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462 to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
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463
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464 The code here is forced by the interface, and is not subject to
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465 copyright, constituting the only possible expression of the
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466 algorithm in this format.
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467
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468 With the addition of this notice, these files are OK for the
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469 upcoming Emacs-22 release. Post-release, we can revisit this issue
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470 and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
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471 (details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
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472
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473 etc/ms-7bkermit
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474 Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
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475 either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
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476 ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
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477 other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
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478 Re-add if clear up status at some point.
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479
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480 etc/Xkeymap.txt
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481 No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
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482 RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
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483 it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
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484 can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
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485 assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
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486 says it is obsolete:
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487 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
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489 src/m/mips4.h, news-risc.h, pmax.h
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490 src/s/aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix4-0.h, irix5-0.h,
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491 netbsd.h, sol2-3.h, usg5-4-2.h
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492 - all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights
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493 till Feb 2007, when FSF copyright was added. Matt Norwood advised:
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494
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495 For now, I think the best policy is to assume that we do have
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496 assignments from the authors (I recall many of these header files
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497 as having been originally written by rms), and to attach an FSF
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498 copyright with GPL notice. We can amend this if and when we
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499 complete the code audit. Any additions to these files by
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500 non-assigned authors are arguably "de minimis" contributions to
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501 Emacs: small changes or suggestions to a work that are subsumed in
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502 the main authors' copyright in the entire work.
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503
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504 Here is my (rgm) take on the details of the above files:
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505
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506 mips4.h
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507 might be trivial? started trivial, been added to in tiny changes by
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508 those with FSF assignment, often result of email suggestions by others.
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509
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510 news-risc.h
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511 started trivial. Grown by tiny additions, plus chunk
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512 from mips.h, which was and is Copyright FSF
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513
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514 pmax.h
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515 started trivial. grown in tiny changes, except for maybe Jim Wilson's
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516 comment.
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517
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518 ? irix4-0.h
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519 I would say started non-trivial (1992, rms). only tiny changes since
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520 installed.
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521
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522 ? irix5-0.h
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523 I would say started non-trivial (1993, jimb, heavily based
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524 on irix4-0.h). A few borderline non-tiny changes since.
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525
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526 usg5-4-2.h
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527 started non-trivial, but was heavily based on usg5-4.h, which was and is
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528 copyright FSF. only tiny changes since installed.
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529
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530 sol2-3.h
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531 started trivial. only non-tiny change (1994) incorporated code from
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532 usg5-4.h, which was and is copyright FSF.
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533
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534 aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, netbsd.h
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535 started trivial, grown in tiny changes.
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537 netbsd.h:
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538 Roland McGrath said to rms (2007/02/17): "I don't really remember
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539 anything about it. If I put it in without other comment, then probably
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540 I wrote it myself."
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543 Someone might want to tweak the copyright years (for dates before
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544 2001) that I used in all these files.
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545
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546 Note: erring on the side of caution, I also added notices to some
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547 files I thought might be considered non-trivial (if one includes
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548 comment) in s/:
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549 aix4-1.h hpux10.h irix6-0.h irix6-5.h
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550 ptx4.h sol2.h
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551
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552 (everything with > 30 non-blank lines, which at least is _some_ kind of
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553 system)
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556 *** These are copyright issues that need not be fixed until after
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557 Emacs 22 is released (though if they can be fixed before, that is
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558 obviously good):
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559
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560
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561 Is it OK to just `cvs remove' a file for legal reasons, or is
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562 something more drastic needed? A removed file is still available from
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563 CVS, if suitable options are applied. (This CVS issue obviously does
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564 not affect a release).
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565 rms: will ask lawyer
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566
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567
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568 Make sure that all files with non-standard copyrights or licenses are
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569 noted in this file.
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572 REMOVED etc/gnu.xpm, nt/icons/emacs21.ico, nt/icons/sink.ico
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573 - Restore if find legal info. emacs21.ico is not due to Davenport.
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574 Geoff Voelker checked but could not find a record of where it came
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575 from.
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578 etc/images
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579 Image files from GTK, Gnome are under GPLv2 (no "or later"?). RMS will
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580 contact image authors in regards to future switch to v3.
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583 etc/TUTORIAL* (translations)
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584 switch to GPL (see english TUTORIAL)
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585 rms: "We can leave the TUTORIAL translations alone until their
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586 maintainers update them."
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587 Can adapt short license text from end of GPL translations at:
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588 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html
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589 Only a few sentences around the license notice need changing from
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590 previous version.
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591 Done: TUTORIAL.eo
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594 *** These are copyright issues still to be addressed:
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596 None known.
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599 ** NOTES ON RELICENSING TO GPL3
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600
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601 The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25.
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602
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603 Some notes:
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604 (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01431.html)
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607 those included from Gnulib). These are all copyright FSF and (at time
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608 of writing) GPL >= 2. rms says may as well leave the licenses of these
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609 alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are:
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610
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611 Gnulib:
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612 src/getloadavg.c
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613 src/gmalloc.c
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614 src/md5.c
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615 src/md5.h
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616 src/mktime.c
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617 src/strftime.c
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618 src/termcap.c
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619 src/tparam.c
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620
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621 Others:
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622 config.guess
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623 config.sub
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624 doc/man/texinfo.tex
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625
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626 Note _not_ included in the above are src/regex.{c,h} (rms: "That
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627 forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that."), and
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628 oldXMenu/insque.c (rms: "We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so
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629 definitely relicense that.").
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630
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631 2. The files that are copyright FSF and AIST, or AIST alone, should be
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632 and were updated, ditto the oldXMenu files with FSF copyright, and
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633 msdos/is_exec.c and sigaction.c.
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634
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635 3. lwlib/
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636
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637 Files originally in Lucid Widget Library were left alone (excludes
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638 ChangeLog, etc), ie remain under GPL v1 or later, or v2 or later.
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639 (rms: "We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to
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640 change it much.")
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641
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642 4. There are some files where the FSF holds no copyright. These were
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643 left alone:
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644
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645 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html >= v2
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646 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html >= v2
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647 (above included in lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el)
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648 leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map >= v1
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649 leim/MISC-DIC/ziranma.cin >= v1
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650 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L >= v2
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651 leim/SKK-DIC/README >= v2
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652 leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el >= v2
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653
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654 5. At time of writing, some non-Emacs icons included from Gnome remain
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655 under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See:
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656
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657 etc/images/gnus/README
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658 etc/images/mail/README
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659 etc/images/README
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660 nt/icons/README
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663 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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664
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665 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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666 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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667 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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668 (at your option) any later version.
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670 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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671 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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672 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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673 GNU General Public License for more details.
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675 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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676 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.