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 p
"s...@pobox.com" writes:
> Based on my own personal experience I don't think you
> can lay all the blame on the folks who have contributed to python-mode.el.
Who's laying blame? There wasn't much point in me pursuing any other
authors without an assignment for Barry's code, but it's now moot.
Andreas Roehler writes:
> Somehow this diff --thanks btw-- contradicts your
> arging here, don't it?
No, but what's that got to do with FSF copyright?
> so I wrote an intentionally incompatible mode
>
> that's human...
Mainly engineering as far as I'm concerned.
> Is python.el now included in
Barry Warsaw writes:
> 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.
Like I just posted elsewhere (?), we -- I think at least t
Beverley Eyre writes:
> But, it was my
> understanding, based on my readings of rms' stuff, that 'free' software
> is free so that people who care to can change the code.
Partly, yes.
> More, they can distribute this altered code to all and sundry as long
> it remains 'free'.
You should re-r
Barry Warsaw writes:
> python-mode.el works fine in Emacs
Maybe now -- I haven't checked closely -- but it didn't when I tried to
fix it, and people are now trying to incorporate Emacs-specific
features. I found the issues actually using it originally, and others
did according to Debian bug rep
Andreas Roehler writes:
> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> For this audience, I'll restate my position, vis-à-vis python-mode.
>>
>> I assert that Tim Peters and myself have assigned copyright in
>> python-mode.el to the FSF.
For this audience, again: Unfortunately the FSF only has an assignment
from T
I seem to be repeating this to ever-expanding lists of addresses.
Glenn Morris writes:
> You've got this backwards.
>
> Emacs includes python.el, written by Dave Love, about which there is
> no legal problem.
Indeed, and I don't understand what other problem there
Beverley Eyre 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
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