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Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex
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David Kastrup |
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Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex |
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Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:27:41 +0200 |
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Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>>
>>> Why is this not sufficient for including their work in the
>>> official Emacs installation, why must they even give up their
>>> copyright? They already stated that their code can be reused by
>>> everyone, couldn't it?
>>
>> They made no legally binding statement whatsoever.
>
> From a legal point of view clearly problematic, with common sense
> it's another story. When I give something to a "charity" I'm not
> eligible to claim later on "interest".
But if there is no proof that you have given anything, that does not
help.
>> Emacs is too important for the FSF to risk that.
>
> <off_topic>
> I'm curious whether the usage of Emacs and TeX is still growing or has
> reached some saturation / decline in this age of graphical IDEs.
> </off_topic>
My guess is that percentages decrease and absolute numbers increase.
> Furthermore I'm interested whether the guys in the snippet below
> have signed legal papers for the FSF (as is claimed in a certain
> lisp file), I'm using and reworking their code. Do you know how I
> could get this piece of information in an unbureaucratic way?
>
> ;; This file containes code from ansys-mod.el.
> ;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ;; Author: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz> (Author does not respond)
> ;; Author: Geoff Foster <fosterg@fp.co.nz> (Address unreachable,
> ;; Dieter Wilhelm 2006-03-08)
I don't see an assignment from either person in the copyright
assignment file accessible by GNU maintainers.
Where did you get the claim?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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