Re: GPLv3|L8R -- Remaining files one by one: NEWS-files

Stephen> Niksic. Before that, I think Steve Baur. Before that, probably Chuck Stephen> Thompson, and then before that, the Lucid people. You can ignore Stephen> anything before the demise of Lucid, though; all Lucid stuff was Stephen> assigned to the FSF, sez Jamie. OK. So an outline for the copyright would be Copyright 19ZZ,...,19YY FSF Copyright 19YY,...,19XX Chuck Thompson Copyright 19XX,...,1997 Steve Baur Copyright 1997,...,2000 Hrvoje Niksic Stephen> hg log should have reasonably good logs back to The Great Trunk Move Stephen> around 21.5.0. Before that, practically everything gets attributed to Stephen> Mike, unfortunately, until you get back to betas for 21.0. Copyright 2000,2001 Michael Sperber hg log indicates 8 commits since 2001 if it can be trusted. We then get: Copyright 2001 Ben Wing Copyright 2001 Didier Verna Copyright 2004 Stephen Turnbull Copyright 2005, 2006 Aidan Kehoe Stephen> Yes. I have a copy (or a dozen) around on various machines. Stephen> If you have need send me an ssh key, What do you think. Is the list good enough? (Give than the years are sorted out.) or do we really need to analyse the commits in cvs? Michael> As to NEWS, I'd suggest treating it like ChangeLog. (Well, there's Michael> nothing from GNU Emacs in there, is there?) Michael: Are you suggesting a more relaxed notation that just say that the copyright is held by the authors but without actually mentioning them by name. Finally about the license: With these contributors listed above would there be any issue with making the NEWS files GPLv3 or later? Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta