"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > Part of the problem is also copyright-related. The goal is to make > BBDB part of GNU Emacs, which requires that the copyright for all > its code (from all contributors) gets assigned to the FSF. The older > the code, the more difficult to find the authors and contributors. > The more BBDB gets rewritten, the less this is a problem.
I've looked at the old manual and have been a bit overwhelmed by the task. There is a lot of material there by quite a few people. I don't know how easy it would be to hunt down the authors and ask them for permission to re-license the content with (I presume) GFDL (it is currently under some form of BSD license). On the other hand I would assume that some of the contents of the manual is no longer valid and can be scrapped, e.g. the internals section, comments about GNUS (the old newsreader before Gnus came along) or the integration with a phone dialer which only ever seemed to have worked on Solaris with a modem(?). Maybe the installation section could be scrapped if the aim is to get it integrated with Emacs. At the risk of loosing lot of material, maybe a more promising approach would be indeed to start from scratch, like Philipp Moeller has proposed (https://github.com/bo0ts/bbdb-v3). Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
