Hi, "Neil Jerram" <[email protected]> writes:
> Apart from the need for copyright assignment, and wanting to avoid > making incompatible Scheme API changes, I personally see no problem > with gradually rolling more and more Scheme library code into the core > Guile. It doesn't AFAIK seem to have hurt Emacs to do this, and it's > a massive convenience that when you install Emacs, everything that you > might need is just there. (Even including massive subsystems like > Calc.) Agreed. > On copyright assignment, I'd like to know if there are other GNU > projects with "contrib" sections where assignment isn't requirement; > anyone know? Avoiding incompatible changes just means that stuff > should only be rolled in when its (believed to be) ready. GNUnet, at least, has that, but many (most?) things in there are subject to bit-rot and are not documented. Besides, copyright of GNUnet core is not assigned to the FSF either. Thanks, Ludo'.
