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.
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
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
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.
>
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
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
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