Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 18, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Dave Love wrote: > >> There is talk in the python-mode.el and on the web site of merging it >> with python.el. I hope people realize that can only be done in >> accordance with the GPL licence of python.el -- i.e. one way -- although >> it doesn't seem useful anyhow. There's already been an attempt to put >> python.el code into python-mode.el contrary to the licence via a bug >> report, and I'm concerned that it doesn't happen any more (unless >> python-mode.el's licence is changed, obviously). > >> It's not clear to me what's in python-mode.el that would be useful to >> put in python.el, although I've only skimmed the current version. >> Anyway the main raison d'être for python.el was that we couldn't get >> copyright papers for python-mode.el for inclusion in Emacs (and I won't >> put unassigned code in my version). Also, python-mode.el changes for >> Emacs weren't accepted, so I wrote an intentionally incompatible mode to >> minimize confusion and ease maintenance. > > While technically the python-mode.el file does not have GPL license on > it, we've tried many times in the past to assign copyright so that it > /could/ have such a license on it, and even be owned by the FSF. It's > long been pulled out of the Python distribution so it needn't (and in > fact doesn't) have a PSF license on it. Tim and I have both assigned > copyright in our changes to the FSF. I think Ken did too, as he was the > author of pdb-track among other good code in python-mode.el. I'm not > sure about Skip. Looking at the committer line from 'bzr log' (which > should include the svn history), that should just about cover it, though > there may be contributions described in comments that need to be looked at. > > I believe there should be no reason why python-mode.el could not be > released under the GPL, probably even with a copyright FSF. If there > are a few contributors who need to be tracked down to get assignments > from, that shouldn't be difficult. > > -Barry >
Hi Barry, I didn't sign code to FSF and probably will not. The reasons I already declared on FSF-list and towards RMS. Will not make it up here, unless you ask me to. As you approved my tiny peace of code, but not merged AFAIS, should I keep a separate branch on lp? Cheers Andreas Röhler _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
