From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44604 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Bely Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes) Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 21:37:35 +0400 Organization: DB @ somewhere Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87adrjse42.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87wuunyrl4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87u1pqbsl3.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87bsby4oy8.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87lmb2336u.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87662631te.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020361139 31899 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 17:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173KXj-0008IM-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 19:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 173KWm-0005Do-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 12:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 May 2002 12:38:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16666 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:38:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4571 invoked by alias); 2 May 2002 17:37:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4566 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 17:37:37 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 May 2002 17:37:37 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173Kbj-0008RR-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 19:43:07 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d114.p9.col.ru Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1020361387 31576 212.248.7.114 (2 May 2002 17:43:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2002 17:43:07 GMT X-Comment-To: Florian Weimer User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service (Windows), i586-pc-win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xL70x9c9wXXB1qNqc9jxnXJUCYg= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44604 >> Ahh... I did not noticed that it has University Of Stuttgart copyright. But >> why this is so bad? Anyway it's GPL'ed so I see no problem here. They are >> going to sell it under different license? Good luck! :-) > > I wrote gpg.el in order to have something which could be integrated > into GnuPG or GNU Emacs some day. Back then, I was told that the > university wouldn't oppose assigning the copyright... Probably this is a bit of offtipic, but could you explain me why transfering the copyright to FSF is necessary? Why some GPL'ed sources, those copyright is holded by somebody else, cannot be supplied with Gnus? (Or "integrated", if you like this word). Why they cannot be maintained? What you are afraid of? Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry