Re: gpg-ring.el/gpg.el?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I don't know, the FSF never told the copyright holder what they were
> doing internally.  There are some rumors.  Currently, we (University
> of Stuttgart) hope to assign copyright (well, the non-exclusive
> usufruct of a copyright) to FSF Europe, German branch, but before this
> can happen, FSF U.S. and FSF Europe have to agree on the modus
> operandi.
>
> If you want to have gpg.el in the GNU Emacs or GNU Privacy Guard
> distribution, and you are familiar with the internal structure of the
> FSF U.S., you might want to ask the right person there to continue
> negotiations.  After proposing a draft contract and convincing RMS
> that German copyright law is substantially different from U.S. law,
> the negotiations stopped, and we have never heard anything back from
> the FSF U.S.

:-(   I hope things will work out.

> (As an additional benefit, I'm able to work again on gpg.el and
> gpg-ring.el, a security audit of the Gnus RFC 3156 support is planned,
> you'll get a few security fixes for GNU Emacs on HP-UX and AIX, and
> perhaps a few GnuPG changes, although the latter are probably OBE
> now.)

Cool.