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Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex
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Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: beamer, pdflatex and auctex |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:01:15 +0200 |
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> There is an Emacs mode out there for the Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
>> program Ansys, the file is called ansys-mode.el and there it's
>> written:
>>
>> ;;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> ;; Author: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz>
>> ;; Author: Geoff Foster <fosterg@fp.co.nz>
>> ;; Maintainer: Tim Read <Tim.Read@fp.co.nz>
>>
>> So it looks to me that they at least intended to give the copyright
>> to the FSF.
>
> Not necessarily. They could have copied some original file from which
> they started. Whatever they intended, without them giving the FSF a
> legally binding assignment and the FSF _accepting_ the copyright, this
> comment is simply wrong.
They mentioned octave-mode as their basis
;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
;; Author: John Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
;; Maintainer: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
> But the question is whether it makes a difference to you. It would if
> you wanted to contribute the code you develop from there back to the
When the code will be accepted, I would be proud to contribute. So,
yes, it makes a difference to me.
> FSF, or if you trust the FSF to behave more reasonably about license
> enforcement than the authors.
Or it makes a difference when I trust the FSF more about the
enforcement. Sorry, I do not understand.
>
> But other than that, you can hardly be expected to carry out diligent
> research about what the above listed authors actually did in regard of
> paperwork or not.
Well I twice tried to contact them via email, but I'm not so sure what
you want to tell me with this sentence. Shall I behave as if they did
not permit to use the code and rewrite every single line?
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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