From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44626 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes) Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 16:10:17 +0200 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> <87wuum1lwl.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 1020435127 30686 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2002 14:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 173dn4-0007yp-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 16:12:07 +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 173dmD-00020L-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 09:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 03 May 2002 09:11:28 -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 JAA20285 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 09:11:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21339 invoked by alias); 3 May 2002 14:10:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21334 invoked from network); 3 May 2002 14:10:54 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 May 2002 14:10:54 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g43EANb16547; Fri, 3 May 2002 16:10:23 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id QAA20491; Fri, 3 May 2002 16:10:17 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id BC2AB3AF25; Fri, 3 May 2002 16:10:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dmitry Bely In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Bely's message of "Fri, 03 May 2002 17:57:24 +0400") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44626 Dmitry Bely writes: > Nobody cares also. So Gnus community position on copyright issues looks > like a bit paranoid to me ... It is not the position of the Gnus community. Gnus is part of Emacs, and that's where the requirement comes from. It is not enough to convince the Gnus maintainer(s), you need to convince the Emacs maintainer(s), as well. And that means RMS, and he has thought about this for a _long_ time and surely he's got a very firm position on this. kai -- Silence is foo!