Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Nov 23 2015 Richard Stallman wrote: > > The file bbdb-snarf.el says GPL 1. > > Can you arrange to completely discard that? The new BBDB also has a file bbdb-snarf.el which is a complete rewrite of the old file, where only the general concept of "snarfing records into BBDB" survived.

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-22 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Nov 22 2015 Richard Stallman wrote: > The previous version of BBDB was released under GPL 2-or-later, right? According to http://bbdb.sourceforge.net, the last version of the "old" BBDB was 2.35 released on January 30, 2007. Most lisp files in this tar ball specify GPL 2-or-later. The

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-22 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Nov 22 2015 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > BBDB v3 on savannah.nongnu.org is essentially a complete rewrite, > > "Essentially" as understood by programmers is rarely anything > close to what a lawyer thinks of as an independent work not > considered a derivative. I doubt *any* of the

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-22 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Nov 23 2015 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Have you looked at the new code? > > I don't need to; I trust you that 'most every line has been changed, > and many functions completely rewritten. The point is that old > configuration works with very little change with the new code. >

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Stephen Leake
Thomas Fitzsimmons writes: > "Roland Winkler" writes: > >> One option could be to incorporate the core of BBDB into GNU Emacs >> and keep the loose ends in savannah.nongnu.org. BBDB has a long >> history of having a core plus many add-ons. > > I really

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 John Wiegley wrote: > I would much prefer this to be in "tarball ELPA", so that it is > included in the distribution, but not a focus for the other > developers. Would there be any need to include it within core > itself? The question is to what extent one wants to consider

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Didn't BBDB have some copyright issues that precluded its > distribution with Emacs or under the same license? (Apologies if > I'm misremembering.) No, you are perfectly right. BBDB v2 *did* have copyright issues. BBDB v3 on savannah.nongnu.org is