Andreas Roehler writes:
> IMO assignment policy contradicts the spirit of free software.
Please, Andreas, drop this thread. You are not going to change
anyone's mind.
Here's why:
> Copyright is an important issue now, taken very seriously.
Which is as it must be; the threat perceived by the
Andreas Roehler writes:
> The question already touched so far is, if or how copyright might
> declared with respect to programs.
Sure, but that is entirely irrelevant to the assignment issue. The
assignment policy takes current copyright law as given.
So I don't think this is a useful convers
I am not a lawyer, and I don't speak for the FSF or the Emacs Project.
I do speak for the XEmacs Project until such time as someone feels
like complaining about it. :-)
Andreas Roehler writes:
> as FSF assignment policy was raised again at
> python-mode@python.org, please permit to ask you a
>
Barry Warsaw writes:
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:47 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote:
>
> > I'm going to stop pretending I'm contributing anything to python-mode
> > development.
Heh. In my book, just making an announcement that you're definitely
going to be inactive in the future is a contribution!
I
> "Ben" == Ben Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> btw is anyone maintaining python-mode?
Yes.
despite the following comment:
;; For historical reasons, underscore is word class instead of
;; symbol class. GNU conventions say it should be symbol class, but
;; there's a natural
Sorry about the premature send.
> "Ben" == Ben Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> btw is anyone maintaining python-mode?
Yes. Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, as it says in MAINTAINERS.
Ben> despite the following comment:
[...]
Ben> imho it is *not* acceptable to have a r
