From 577c4ec0579864e6e2e243e64cc6662c9fcc8bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * admin/notes/copyright: Remove info on some files no longer present. --- admin/notes/copyright | 65 ++++++------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) diff --git a/admin/notes/copyright b/admin/notes/copyright index adc12f0bfb5..39eb003a07d 100644 --- a/admin/notes/copyright +++ b/admin/notes/copyright @@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes 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 @@ -146,13 +149,6 @@ install-sh 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 @@ -385,9 +381,9 @@ Makefile.in does now. 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 @@ -398,15 +394,6 @@ which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers 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: @@ -427,20 +414,6 @@ src/unexhp9k800.c 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 @@ -456,14 +429,8 @@ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.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: @@ -476,22 +443,6 @@ src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h 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: - - 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 -- 2.39.5