l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I'd like to import your CK macro into Guile. Would you be willing to
>> contribute it to Guile? If so, please respond to the list to say so.
>> It's small enough (15 lines) that I guess we don't need papers.
>
> For the record, there’s usually no paperwork involved when incorporating
> third-party code like this. It would be inappropriate to ask people who
> wrote code for some unrelated external project to assign copyright to
> the FSF (info "(maintain) External Libraries").
Apologies if I mishandled this, but the problem here is that the code
had no explicit license or copying permission notice. If it had been
explicitly published as free software, I certainly would not have
bothered him about it.
> (It’s also interesting to see how the SLOC metric doesn’t work here,
> given that the explanation of those 15 lines fits in several pages of
> dense non-trivial technical work. :-))
Hmm. While that's true, I took only 15 (non-blank) lines from it.
Is that not the relevant metric?
I confess that I have much to learn on these matters, and am eager to
learn :)
Mark
