On Wed Jan 19 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > I'd be OK with providing BBDB3 in a beta form through > elpa.gnu.org. As long as the version string states it clearly, > which it will. You are likely to get plenty of feedback.
Feedback is always appreciated! > A rewrite is the worst case, where you can't find the original > contributor or they are not willing to assign the copyright to the FSF. Some pieces of BBDB in their original form are rather old. So I exepct that tracking down the original contributor can be more difficult. > (CC to Chong Yidong in case he wants to comment) My main question is the legal meaning of "rewrite". (Almost all code has been rewritten in one or the other way.) > If BBDB3 is written by you then you have the copyright AFAIK. We need > to find the code that you did not write and track down the authors. Can > you do the first part? I can try to make a list of things that I have changed "less". By the way, I already passed on the copyright to FSF for my "general" contributions to GNU Emacs. Is this enough here? I'll be happy to do this once more. > RW> ...For the new code I have not yet found anybody who might want to > RW> help with it. In that sense, I can speak here without further > RW> consultation for all (current) BBDB developpers. > > That's wonderful. Yes and no :-) Anybodies help is greatly appreciated... > Thank you for working on this functionality and I look foward to > helping you test and document it. ...including yours. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
