Beverley Eyre <f...@comcast.net> writes: > Don't forget that there was a peck of code that Dave Love took from > python-mode.el in his python.el.
That's not true, as I've already responded to Eyre with some subset of these Ccs. As well as this claim of wholesale copying, and thus me lying about the copyright status of the code, there was the implication that I was violating other's copyright, and that people should ignore the licence on free software (bizarrely on the basis of what rms supposedly wrote). I advised legal advice on copyright, and should probably have mentioned libel. [For the benefit of emacs-devel, this all originated when I complained about someone distributing a chunk of my code with the FSF copyright notice stripped as a patch for python-mode.el, which was under a simple permissive licence. I also saw a call for volunteers to merge the two modes, and pointed out the GPL'd code couldn't be used under the permissive licence -- there was no mention of changing it -- and that code couldn't be used in Emacs without a proper assignment.] Obviously if the FSF's legal advice on what's significant for copyright purposes has changed, if I misinterpreted it, or made a mistake, I'd re-write stuff appropriately. However, I don't think it's worth worrying about it on the basis of someone who's so far quoted some duplicated keybindings, and a Fixme comment that was clearly mine, as evidence of all this copied code. If Emacs developers are worried, please contact me more privately. _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
