Re: ognus

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

[I'm not going to get into a slanging match over the rest of this, but
I'd prefer not to be treated like someone with no experience talking
through his hat.]

 PA> Well, he used to avoid e.g. Kyle Jones code (which is both
 PA> relevant and very high quality, but unassigned).

Please stop giving a false impression of this issue.  Here's an
indication of serious management problems -- no `but's -- particularly
if the statement about Emacs just integrating a specific version from
the general release were true:

$ grep 'Copyright (C)' base64.el md5.el gpg*el starttls.el gnus-ml.el
base64.el:;;; Copyright (C) 1997 Kyle E. Jones
md5.el:;; Copyright (C) 1995 by Gareth Rees
md5.el:;; Copyright (C) 1990, RSA Data Security, Inc. All rights reserved.
gpg-ring.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 RUS-CERT, University Of Stuttgart
gpg.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 RUS-CERT, University Of Stuttgart
starttls.el:;; Copyright (C) 1999 Daiki Ueno
gnus-ml.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 by Julien Gilles 

[Obviously an FSF copyright notice doesn't mean the contents of a file
are actually properly assigned and I know Lars didn't check in all the
problematic stuff.]

Now I will fork off and do my best at the job I agreed with the Emacs
maintainer and the Gnus maintainer.

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