Hi, The file PROBLENS describes the different problems there has been over time to build XEmacs on different platforms. It also starts by saying it is mostly of historical interest in that XEmacs today does not require bleeding edge features. So I guess this file is not as desperately needed to be part of the distribution then if there would be problems with getting copyright to be correct. Similar to the CHANGES-beta the recent contributions can be found by examining hg log. The full change list goes back further though. At the time of writing it strikes me that the ChangeLog file as well can be used for deducing the authors. Maybe even better and easier!? A pipe grepping through the it gives this list from which creating appropriate copyrights is easy. (Finding all entries that matches the regular expression PROBLEM.*:) Does this list look reasonable? Any one in the list who is known to object to going GPLv3 or later? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010-01-14 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2010-01-13 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2009-11-18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2007-03-14 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2006-05-17 Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2006-05-17 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2005-11-08 Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2005-03-06 Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2005-01-31 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-09-20 Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa(a)mcw.edu&gt; 2003-04-28 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-03-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-03-01 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-02-20 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-01-31 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2003-01-14 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-11-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-11-12 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-10-31 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-10-18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-10-17 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-09-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-10-08 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-09-20 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-08-10 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-07-24 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-07-04 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-07-02 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-05-17 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2002-05-04 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-05-04 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-07-22 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-11-21 Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com&gt; 2001-03-23 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-01-18 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-01-17 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2001-01-16 Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com&gt; 2001-01-16 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2000-12-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2000-12-20 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; 2000-06-27 Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com&gt; 2000-02-19 Marcus Thiessel <marcus(a)xemacs.org&gt; 1999-01-05 Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; 1999-02-16 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; 1998-12-28 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; 1998-09-09 Gunnar Evermann <Gunnar.Evermann(a)nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de&gt; 1998-08-31 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; 1998-05-11 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; 1998-04-22 Marcus Thiessel <marcus_thiessel(a)hp.com&gt; 1998-03-05 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; 1998-03-02 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; 1998-02-19 Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com&gt; 1997-12-17 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; 1997-11-19 Tor Arntsen <tor(a)spacetec.no&gt; 1997-05-22 Steven L Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta