Re: gsettings.m4 copyright

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, fejfighter@gmail.com, masm+github@masm11.me,
>       emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:56:07 -0500
> 
>   > > That file is full of non-trivial code from the GLib project.
> 
>   > You are saying that we cannot include it in Emacs, because whoever
>   > wrote the code didn't contribute it to us?  That's not a copyright
>   > question, that's a completely different (and more serious) issue.
> 
> GNU Project policy is that it's ok to import code from other released
> free packages whose licenses are compatible with the license we are
> using (which is GPL3-or-later).  The license LGPL-2.1 is compatible,
> so we can import this code.
> 
> We should make sure it carries the copyright notices and license
> notices that it should have.  The fact it was missing those is a
> small problem, but we can fix that.
> 
> If the whole Glib package carries a copyright notices, copy that one.
> 
> If it isn't clear what to do, how about asking its developers what
> that should be?

I prefer to implement that differently, since what the file does is
not clean enough for my taste.  If that is possible, it would also
solve this issue.  If it turns out to be harder than I thought, we
will reconsider.