Hi Uwe,
John and I didn't get copyright assignments, just approval to contribute
and distribute using a GPL like license. I'll look into what it will
take to also get an assignment.
I am not familiar with copyright law regarding the fact that if I
re-wrote a lot of the old code means the old contributors no longer hold
copyright. If someone sent me a patch, and I did my own implementation,
that is ok, but in a lot of cases, I would have installed a patch, and
then later gone back and fixed things up or replaced old code. I am
uncertain if the FSF will require some sort of proof of full replacement
which would be difficult since old change-logs were done before modern
version control systems were used with this project.
Eric
On 11/29/20 4:15 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
Dear Contributers,
As of today emacs matlab, is (only) a MELPA pkg (besides dwelling in
sourceforge and in github), but not in ELPA.
The main reason for this decision was that some code was owned by
mathworks. That however has changes quite some time ago, but I was too
busy to address its implication.
In order that matlab emacs enters ELPA, there are some necessary
conditions to satisfy.
1. All current contributers must sign the relevant papers of the FSF. As
far
as I can remember, Eric did, John I think too, and I as well.
Could you please confirm?
2. So it would be nice if new contributers signed these papers as well.
3. Contributions made in ancient times (or some time ago) are a more
complicated issue.
git shortlog -ns | more
tells me
Eric Ludlam (zappo)
zappo
Uwe Brauer
davenar
John Ciolfi
dlebrecht
While hg churn (yes I use hg-git) tells me
eric@
zappo@
eludlam@
ciolfi@
davenar@
oub@
oub@
fritz_da_silva@
But there are others I recall
Matt Wette for example
04Jan91 by Matt Wette
Created. Used eiffel.el as a guide.
07Dec96 by Matt Wette
incorporated many fixes from Mats Bengtsson
These authors might be difficult to find, but as far as I can
remember Eric told me that he basically
EL> Regarding searching for contributors, over the years I replaced a huge
amount of the old matlab.el code.
rewrote every contribution done by these authors.
I have to check this issue with with the FSF or on the emacs dev mailing
list. Maybe git blame (or hg annotate) would help.
I found an very old matlab.el file, in which the changlog file is
appended. However it is a bit murky since it sometimes not clear whether
a given author did a feature request/proposal or an actual contribution.
Before bring this subject to the FSF or the emacs dev mailing list:
Would all current (or future) developers willing to sign the
corresponding FSF papers?
Regards
Uwe
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