from others, without recording the true authorship.
[For reference, most of these points were established via email with
-rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".]
+rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".
+
+In March 2011, information on some files no longer included was removed.
+Consult older versions of this document if interested.]
lisp/version.el # emacs-copyright
etc/refcards/*.tex
also update the \def\year macro for the latest year.
-etc/BABYL, ms-kermit
- no notices (see below).
-
-etc/emacs.csh
- - written by Michael DeCorte, who has no assignment. But trivial
- enough to not need license.
-
etc/future-bug
- doesn't need a humorless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we
can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
src/gmalloc.c
- contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
-src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
- - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
- 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
+src/ndir.h
+ - see comments below. This file is OK to be released with Emacs
+ 22, but we may want to revisit it afterwards.
** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
conclude it was written by me."
-etc/ulimit.hack
- Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
-is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
-assignment. Trivial anyway.
-http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
-9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
-http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
- (original 1987 source)
-
lisp/term/README
- had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
HP. So this file is public domain.
-K Rodgers changes
- It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
- ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
- him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
- initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
- changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
- threads:
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00257.html
-
- But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
-
-
lisp/progmodes/python.el
Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
admin/check-doc-strings
File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
-etc/BABYL
- File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
- without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
- ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
-
-etc/ms-kermit
etc/e/eterm-color.ti
-src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
+src/ndir.h
On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
(details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
-etc/ms-7bkermit
- Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
-either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
-ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
-other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
-Re-add if clear up status at some point.
-
-etc/Xkeymap.txt
- No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
-RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
-it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
-can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
-assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
-says it is obsolete:
-<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
-
src/s/aix3-2.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix5-0.h, netbsd.h, usg5-4-2.h
[note some of these have since been merged into other files]
- all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights