From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40376 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gpg-ring.el/gpg.el? Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:43:18 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87k7wqjzvo.fsf@mclinux.com> <87lmh6ifck.fsf@mclinux.com> <87g07d3b65.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175936 568 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:52:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23596 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2001 11:46:32 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2001 11:46:32 -0000 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 1653tt-0007XM-00; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:44:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:44:27 -0600 (CST) 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 FAA13054 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:44:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23561 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2001 11:44:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23556 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2001 11:44:29 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO dolk.extundo.com) (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Nov 2001 11:44:29 -0000 Original-Received: from dhcp128.extundo.com (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by dolk.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fAHBhumb001622; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:43:57 +0100 Original-To: Florian Weimer In-Reply-To: <87g07d3b65.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:10:42 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40376 Florian Weimer 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.