Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently thinking of including, after appropriate modification, > some Latex-like functionality such as TeX-font, `TeX-insert-macro' > LaTeX-insert-item, LaTeX-section into wikipedia-mode.el > > Do I have your permission?
Who is "you"? AUCTeX is released under the GPL and has been since its inception (necessarily so since it was derived from early Emacs modes). As such, the permission of the authors can be assumed as long as the results are released under the GPL. However, the copyright is distributed over a number of contributors. While recent contributions are all assigned to the FSF (which makes releasing under anything but the GPL pretty much impossible), not all historical contributors have been rounded up so far. The copyright status and its tracking thus is somewhat similar to XEmacs or the Linux kernel: not in one hand. It is reasonably clear that all contributors have intended to contribute under the conditions of the GPL, but there is no written guarantee that not some stuff might have been contributed in the past for which the rights would be hard to actually clear. So if wikipedia.el is to be released under the GPL, you have all the permission that can be secured at the moment. Whether this is enough for you, is your decision. Releasing under other licenses would be hard to do, given that the FSF is pretty much the main copyright holder of AUCTeX by now. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
