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changeset 76246:d2ecb2b1abb5
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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:58:23 +0000 |
| parents | 9d0480c6016a |
| children | 336177541fa2 |
| files | admin/notes/copyright |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/notes/copyright Thu Mar 01 06:08:15 2007 +0000 +++ b/admin/notes/copyright Thu Mar 01 08:58:23 2007 +0000 @@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib." +NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see +below). + FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to @@ -270,11 +273,26 @@ As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h. +The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as +that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw +files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid +Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later, +but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2 +or later. These are the versions that were first installed in Emacs. +So in GNU Emacs, these two files have been under v2 or later since +1994. -msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - - these files are copyright DJ Delorie. Leave the copyrights alone. - Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in is_exec.c alone. See the - msdos/README file for the legal history of these files. +It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later +(excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license +we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices +originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later, +rms prefers that we do not do so. + + +msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie. +Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in +is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of +these files. oldXMenu/ @@ -522,10 +540,6 @@ Done: TUTORIAL.eo -lwlib/* - should it be under GPLv1 or later, or v2 or later, or some mixture? - - This file is part of GNU Emacs.