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1 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
3
4
5 NOTES ON COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES
6
7 Some terminology:
8
9 A "copyright notice" consists of one or a few lines of this format:
10 "Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
11
12 A "license notice" is a statement of permissions, and is usually much
13 longer, eg the text "GNU Emacs is free software...".
14
15
16 Summary for the impatient:
17
18 1. Don't add code to Emacs written by someone other than yourself
19 without thinking about the legal aspect. Even if the changes are
20 trivial, consider if they combine with previous changes by the same
21 author to make a non-trivial total. If so, make sure they have an
22 assignment. If adding a whole file adjust the copyright statements in
23 the file.
24
25 2. When installing code written by someone else, the ChangeLog entry
26 should be in the name of the author of the code, not the person who
27 installs it. I think it is helpful to put the author (if not yourself)
28 in the commit log as well (you can also use bzr commit's "--author"
29 option); and to not install any of your own changes in the same commit.
30
31 3. With images, add the legal info to a README file in the directory
32 containing the image.
33
34 4. If you add a lot of text to a previously trivial file that had no
35 legal notices, consider if you should add a copyright statement.
36
37 5. Please don't just add an FSF copyright without checking that is the
38 right thing to do.
39
40
41 Every non-trivial file distributed through the Emacs repository should be
42 self-explanatory in terms of copyright and license. This includes
43 files that are not distributed in Emacs releases (for example, the
44 admin/ directory), because the whole Emacs repository is publicly
45 available.
46
47 The definition of triviality is a little vague, but a rule of thumb is
48 that any file with less than 15 lines of actual content is trivial. If
49 a file is auto-generated (eg ldefs-boot.el) from another one in the
50 repository, then it does not really matter about adding a copyright
51 statement to the generated file.
52
53 Legal advice says that we could, if we wished, put a license notice
54 even in trivial files, because copyright law in general looks at the
55 overall work as a whole. It is not _necessary_ to do so, and rms
56 prefers that we do not. This means one needs to take care that trivial
57 files do not grow and become non-trivial without having a license
58 added. NB consequently, if you add a lot of text to a small file,
59 consider whether your changes have made the file worthy of a copyright
60 notice, and if so, please add one.
61
62 It can be helpful to put a reminder comment at the start of a trivial
63 file, eg: "add a license notice if this grows to > 10 lines of code".
64
65 The years in the copyright notice should be updated every year (see
66 file "years" in this directory). The PDF versions of refcards etc
67 should display copyright notices (an exception to the rule about
68 "generated" files), but these can just display the latest year. The
69 full list of years should be kept in comments in the source file. If
70 these are distributed in the repository, check in a regenerated
71 version when the tex files are updated.
72
73 Copyright changes should be propagated to any associated repositories
74 (eg Gnus, MH-E), but I think in every case this happens automatically
75 (?).
76
77 All README (and other such text files) that are non-trivial should
78 contain copyright statements and GPL license notices, exactly as .el
79 files do (see e.g. README in the top-level directory). Before 2007,
80 we used a simple, short statement permitting copying and modification
81 provided legal notices were retained. In Feb 2007 we switched to the
82 standard GPL text, on legal advice. Some older text files in etc/
83 should, however, keep their current licenses (see below for list).
84
85 For image files, the copyright and license details should be recorded
86 in a README file in each directory with images. (Legal advice says
87 that we need not add notices to each image file individually, if they
88 allow for that.). It is recommended to use the word "convert" to
89 describe the automatic process of changing an image from one format to
90 another (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00618.html).
91
92
93 When installing a file with an "unusual" license (after checking first
94 it is ok), put a copy of the copyright and license in the file (if
95 possible. It's ok if this makes the file incompatible with its
96 original format, if it can still be used by Emacs), or in a README
97 file in the relevant directory.
98
99 The vast majority of files are copyright FSF and distributed under the
100 GPL. A few files (mainly related to language and charset support) are
101 copyright AIST alone, or both AIST and FSF. (Contact Kenichi Handa
102 with questions about legal issues in such files.) In all these cases,
103 the copyright years in each file should be updated each year.
104
105 There are some exceptions to the points in the previous paragraph, and
106 these are listed below for reference, together with any files where
107 the copyright needs to be updated in "unusual" ways.
108
109 If you find any other such cases, please consult to check they are ok,
110 and note them in this file. This includes missing copyright notices,
111 and "odd" copyright holders. In most cases, individual authors should
112 not appear in copyright statements. Either the copyright has been
113 assigned (check copyright.list) to the FSF (in which case the original
114 author should be removed and the year(s) transferred to the FSF); or
115 else it is possible the file should not be in Emacs at all (please
116 report!).
117
118 Note that it seems painfully clear that one cannot rely on commit logs,
119 or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes
120 from others, without recording the true authorship.
121
122 [For reference, most of these points were established via email with
123 rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".]
124
125
126 lisp/version.el # emacs-copyright
127 lib-src/ebrowse.c # version
128 lib-src/etags.c # print_version
129 lib-src/rcs2log # Copyright
130 Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist
131 Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
132 GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
133 `set-copyright' in admin.el will do all the above.
134
135 configure
136 - copyright FSF, with unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify
137
138 m4/getopt.m4
139 - copyright FSF, with MIT-like license
140
141 install-sh
142 - this file is copyright MIT, which is OK. Leave the copyright alone.
143
144 mkinstalldirs
145 src/m/news-r6.h
146 public domain, leave alone.
147
148 etc/refcards/*.tex
149 also update the \def\year macro for the latest year.
150
151 etc/BABYL, ms-kermit
152 no notices (see below).
153
154 etc/emacs.csh
155 - written by Michael DeCorte, who has no assignment. But trivial
156 enough to not need license.
157
158 etc/future-bug
159 - doesn't need a humorless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we
160 can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
161 Emacs changes. (email to rgm "[Emacs-commit] emacs/etc future-bug",
162 2007028)
163
164 etc/letter.pbm,letter.xpm
165 - trivial, no notice needed.
166 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00324.html>
167
168 etc/FTP, ORDERS
169 - trivial (at time of writing), no license needed
170
171 etc/GNU, INTERVIEW, LINUX-GNU, MOTIVATION, SERVICE, THE-GNU-PROJECT,
172 WHY-FREE
173 rms: "These are statements of opinion or testimony. Their licenses
174 should permit verbatim copying only. Please don't change the
175 licenses that they have. They are distributed with Emacs but they
176 are not part of Emacs."
177
178 etc/HELLO
179 standard notices. Just a note that although the file itself is not
180 really copyrightable, in the wider context of it being part of
181 Emacs (and written by those with assignments), a standard notice is
182 fine.
183
184 etc/MAILINGLISTS
185 rms: simple license is fine for this file
186
187 leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit, ARRAY30.tit, CCDOSPY.tit, ECDICT.tit,
188 ETZY.tit, PY-b5.tit, Punct-b5.tit, Punct.tit, QJ-b5.tit, QJ.tit,
189 SW.tit, TONEPY.tit, ZOZY.tit
190 - leave the copyrights alone.
191
192 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html, CTLau.html, cangjie-table.b5, cangjie-table.cns,
193 pinyin.map, ziranma.cin
194 - leave the copyright alone.
195 Note that pinyin.map, ziranma.cin (and hence the generated
196 leim/quail/PY.el, ZIRANMA.el) are under GPLv1 or later.
197
198 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L
199 ja-dic/ja-dic.el
200 (the latter is auto-generated from the former). Leave the copyright alone.
201
202 lib-src/etags.c
203 Copyright information is duplicated in etc/ETAGS.README. Update that
204 file too.
205
206 Until 2007 etags.c was described as being copyright FSF and Ken Arnold.
207 After some investigation in Feb 2007, then to the best of our
208 knowledge we believe that the original 1984 Emacs version was based
209 on the version in BSD4.2. See for example this 1985 post from Ken Arnold:
210 <http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ffe5c55845a640a9>
211 I have received enough requests for the current source to ctags
212 to post it. Here is the latest version (what will go out with
213 4.3, modulo any bugs fixed during the beta period). It is the
214 4.2 ctags with recognition of yacc and lex tags added.
215
216 See also a 1984 version of ctags (no copyright) posted to net.sources:
217 <http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/msg/a21b6c21be12a98d>
218 Version of etags.c in emacs-16.56 duplicates comment typos.
219
220 Accordingly, in Feb 2007 we added a 1984 copyright for the
221 University of California and a revised BSD license. The terms of
222 this require that the full license details be available in binary
223 distributions - hence the file etc/ETAGS.README. The fact that the
224 --version output just says "Copyright <year> FSF" is apparently OK
225 from a legal point of view.
226
227 lib-src/getopt1.c, getopt_int.h
228 - these are from the GNU C library. Leave the copyrights alone.
229
230 lisp/cedet/semantic/imenu.el
231 - See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00410.html
232 in which Eric Ludlam established that the remaining contributions
233 from authors other than himself were negligible.
234
235 lisp/play/tetris.el
236 - no special rules about the copyright. We note here that we believe
237 (2007/1) there is no problem with our use of the name "tetris" or
238 the concept.
239 rms: "My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable."
240 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00960.html>
241 rms: Legal advice is that we are ok and need not worry about this.
242
243
244 lisp/net/tramp.el
245 - there are also copyrights in the body of the file. Update these too.
246
247
248 lwlib/
249 rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider
250 it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib."
251
252 NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see
253 below).
254
255 FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone
256 non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid
257 Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to
258 a file with no FSF copyright, you should add one. Also, if changes are
259 reverted to the extent that a file becomes basically the same as the
260 original version, the FSF copyright should be removed.
261
262 In my (rgm) opinion, as of Feb 2007, all the non-trivial files differ
263 significantly from the original versions, with the exception of
264 lwlib-Xm.h. Most of the changes that were made to this file have
265 subsequently been reverted. Therefore I removed the FSF copyright from
266 this file (which is arguably too trivial to merit a notice anyway). I
267 added FSF copyright to the following files which did not have them
268 already: Makefile.in, lwlib-Xaw.c, lwlib-int.h (borderline),
269 lwlib-utils.c (borderline), lwlib.c, lwlib.h.
270
271 Copyright years before the advent of public CVS in 2001 were those
272 when I judged (from the CVS logs) that non-trivial amounts of change
273 had taken place. I also adjusted the existing FSF years in xlwmenu.c,
274 xlwmenu.h, and xlwmenuP.h on the same basis.
275
276 Note that until Feb 2007, the following files in lwlib were lacking
277 notices: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h
278
279 The following files did not list a Lucid copyright: xlwmenu.h,
280 xlwmenuP.h.
281
282 To the best of our knowledge, all the code files in lwlib were
283 originally part of the Lucid Widget Library, even if they did not say
284 so explicitly. For example, they were all present in Lucid Emacs 19.1
285 in 1992. The exceptions are the two Xaw files, which did not appear
286 till Lucid Emacs 19.9 in 1994. The file lwlib-Xaw.h is too trivial to
287 merit a copyright notice, but would presumably have the same one as
288 lwlib-Xaw.c. We have been unable to find a true standalone version of
289 LWL, if there was such a thing, to check definitively.
290
291 To clarify the situation, in Feb 2007 we added Lucid copyrights and
292 GPL notices to those files lacking either that were non-trivial,
293 namely: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, xlwmenu.h, xlwmenuP.h. This represents
294 our best understanding of the legal status of these files. We also
295 clarified the notices in Makefile.in, which was originally the
296 Makefile auto-generated from Lucid's Imakefile.
297
298 As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for
299 notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h.
300
301 The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as
302 that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw
303 files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid
304 Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later,
305 but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2
306 or later. These are the versions that were first installed in Emacs.
307 So in GNU Emacs, these two files have been under v2 or later since
308 1994.
309
310 It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later
311 (excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license
312 we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices
313 originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later,
314 rms prefers that we do not do so.
315
316
317 doc/*/doclicense.texi
318 - leave the copyright alone in this imported file.
319
320 doc/*/*.texi - All manuals should be under GFDL (but see below), and
321 should include a copy of it, so that they can be distributed
322 separately. faq.texi has a different license, for some reason no-one
323 can remember.
324 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00583.html
325 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00618.html
326
327 doc/misc/mh-e.texi is dual-licensed (GPL and GFDL) per agreement with
328 FSF (reconfirmed by rms Aug 25 2008). Discussion with
329 licensing@fsf.org starting on Thu, 07 Aug 2003 with subject:
330 "[gnu.org #58812] Changing license of MH-E manual"
331
332
333 msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie.
334 Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in
335 is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of
336 these files.
337
338 msdos/sed*.inp - These files are copyright FSF and distributed under
339 an MIT-like license.
340
341
342 oldXMenu/
343 Keep the "copyright.h" method used by X11, rather than moving the
344 licenses into the files. Note that the original X10.h did not use
345 copyright.h, but had an explicit notice, which we retain.
346
347 If you make non-trivial changes to a file which does not have an FSF
348 notice, add one and a GPL notice (as per Activate.c). If changes to a
349 file are reverted such that it becomes essentially the same as the
350 original X11 version, remove the FSF notice and GPL.
351
352 Only the files which differ significantly from the original X11
353 versions should have FSF copyright and GPL notices. At time of writing
354 (Feb 2007), this is: Activate.c, Create.c, Internal.c. I (rgm)
355 established this by diff'ing the current files against those in X11R1,
356 and when I found significant differences looking in the ChangeLog for
357 the years they originated (the CVS logs are truncated before 1999). I
358 therefore removed the FSF notices (added in 200x) from the other
359 files. There are some borderline cases IMO: AddSel.c, InsSel.c,
360 XMakeAssoc.c, XMenu.h. For these I erred on the side of NOT adding FSF
361 notices.
362
363 With regards to whether the files we have changed should have GPL
364 added or not, rms says (2007-02-25, "oldXmenu issues"):
365
366 It does not make much difference, because oldXmenu is obsolete
367 except for use in Emacs (and it is not normally used in Emacs any
368 more either).
369
370 So, to make things simple, please put our changes under the GPL.
371
372 insque.c had no copyright notice until 2005. The version of insque.c
373 added to Emacs 1992-01-27 is essentially the same as insremque.c added
374 to glic three days later by Roland McGrath, with an FSF copyright and
375 GPL, but no ChangeLog entry:
376 <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libc/misc/insremque.c?\
377 rev=1.1&cvsroot=glibc>
378 To the best of his recollection, McGrath (who has a copyright
379 assignment) was the author of this file (email from roland at frob.com
380 to rms, 2007-02-23, "Where did insque.c come from?"). The FSF
381 copyright and GPL in this file are therefore correct as far as we
382 understand it.
383
384 Imakefile had no legal info in Feb 2007, but was obviously based on
385 the X11 version (which also had no explicit legal info). As it was
386 unused, I removed it. It would have the same MIT copyright as
387 Makefile.in does now.
388
389
390 src/gmalloc.c
391 - contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
392
393 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
394 - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
395 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
396
397
398 ** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
399
400 etc/TERMS
401 rms: "surely written either by me or by ESR. (If you can figure out
402 which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers
403 for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
404 conclude it was written by me."
405
406 etc/ulimit.hack
407 Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
408 is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
409 assignment. Trivial anyway.
410 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
411 9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
412 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
413 (original 1987 source)
414
415 lisp/term/README
416 - had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
417 written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
418
419 I don't remember writing it, but it reads like my prose and I believe
420 I wrote the feature(s) it's describing. So I would have been the
421 likeliest person to write it.
422
423 Odds are that I did, but I'm not certain.
424
425 Accordingly, FSF copyright was added.
426
427 src/unexhp9k800.c
428 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00138.html
429 - briefly removed due to legal uncertainly Jan-Mar 2007. The
430 relevant assignment is under "hp9k800" in copyright.list. File was
431 written by John V. Morris at HP, and disclaimed by the author and
432 HP. So this file is public domain.
433
434
435 K Rodgers changes
436 It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
437 ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
438 him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
439 initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
440 changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
441 threads:
442 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
443 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00257.html
444
445 But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
446 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
447
448
449 lisp/progmodes/python.el
450 Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
451 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
452
453 On consultation with a lawyer, we found there was no problem:
454 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html
455
456
457 ** Issues that are "fixed" for the release of Emacs 22, but we may
458 wish to revisit later in more detail
459
460
461 admin/check-doc-strings
462 File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
463
464 etc/BABYL
465 File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
466 without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
467 ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
468
469 etc/ms-kermit
470 etc/e/eterm-color.ti
471 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
472 On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
473 to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
474
475 The code here is forced by the interface, and is not subject to
476 copyright, constituting the only possible expression of the
477 algorithm in this format.
478
479 With the addition of this notice, these files are OK for the
480 upcoming Emacs-22 release. Post-release, we can revisit this issue
481 and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
482 (details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
483
484 etc/ms-7bkermit
485 Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
486 either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
487 ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
488 other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
489 Re-add if clear up status at some point.
490
491 etc/Xkeymap.txt
492 No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
493 RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
494 it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
495 can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
496 assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
497 says it is obsolete:
498 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
499
500 src/m/mips4.h, news-risc.h, pmax.h
501 src/s/aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix4-0.h, irix5-0.h,
502 netbsd.h, sol2-3.h, usg5-4-2.h
503 - all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights
504 till Feb 2007, when FSF copyright was added. Matt Norwood advised:
505
506 For now, I think the best policy is to assume that we do have
507 assignments from the authors (I recall many of these header files
508 as having been originally written by rms), and to attach an FSF
509 copyright with GPL notice. We can amend this if and when we
510 complete the code audit. Any additions to these files by
511 non-assigned authors are arguably "de minimis" contributions to
512 Emacs: small changes or suggestions to a work that are subsumed in
513 the main authors' copyright in the entire work.
514
515 Here is my (rgm) take on the details of the above files:
516
517 mips4.h
518 might be trivial? started trivial, been added to in tiny changes by
519 those with FSF assignment, often result of email suggestions by others.
520
521 news-risc.h
522 started trivial. Grown by tiny additions, plus chunk
523 from mips.h, which was and is Copyright FSF
524
525 pmax.h
526 started trivial. grown in tiny changes, except for maybe Jim Wilson's
527 comment.
528
529 ? irix4-0.h
530 I would say started non-trivial (1992, rms). only tiny changes since
531 installed.
532
533 ? irix5-0.h
534 I would say started non-trivial (1993, jimb, heavily based
535 on irix4-0.h). A few borderline non-tiny changes since.
536
537 usg5-4-2.h
538 started non-trivial, but was heavily based on usg5-4.h, which was and is
539 copyright FSF. only tiny changes since installed.
540
541 sol2-3.h
542 started trivial. only non-tiny change (1994) incorporated code from
543 usg5-4.h, which was and is copyright FSF.
544
545 aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, netbsd.h
546 started trivial, grown in tiny changes.
547
548 netbsd.h:
549 Roland McGrath said to rms (2007/02/17): "I don't really remember
550 anything about it. If I put it in without other comment, then probably
551 I wrote it myself."
552
553
554 Someone might want to tweak the copyright years (for dates before
555 2001) that I used in all these files.
556
557 Note: erring on the side of caution, I also added notices to some
558 files I thought might be considered non-trivial (if one includes
559 comment) in s/:
560 aix4-1.h hpux10.h irix6-0.h irix6-5.h
561 ptx4.h sol2.h
562
563 (everything with > 30 non-blank lines, which at least is _some_ kind of
564 system)
565
566
567 *** These are copyright issues that need not be fixed until after
568 Emacs 22 is released (though if they can be fixed before, that is
569 obviously good):
570
571
572 Is it OK to just `bzr remove' a file for legal reasons, or is
573 something more drastic needed? A removed file is still available from
574 the repository, if suitable options are applied. (This issue obviously
575 does not affect a release).
576 rms: will ask lawyer
577
578
579 Make sure that all files with non-standard copyrights or licenses are
580 noted in this file.
581
582
583 REMOVED etc/gnu.xpm, nt/icons/emacs21.ico, nt/icons/sink.ico
584 - Restore if find legal info. emacs21.ico is not due to Davenport.
585 Geoff Voelker checked but could not find a record of where it came
586 from.
587
588
589 etc/images
590 Image files from GTK, Gnome are under GPLv2 (no "or later"?). RMS will
591 contact image authors in regards to future switch to v3.
592
593
594 etc/TUTORIAL* (translations)
595 switch to GPL (see english TUTORIAL)
596 rms: "We can leave the TUTORIAL translations alone until their
597 maintainers update them."
598 Can adapt short license text from end of GPL translations at:
599 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html
600 Only a few sentences around the license notice need changing from
601 previous version.
602 Done: TUTORIAL.eo
603
604
605 *** These are copyright issues still to be addressed:
606
607 None known.
608
609
610 ** NOTES ON RELICENSING TO GPL3
611
612 The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25.
613
614 Some notes:
615 (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01431.html)
616
617 1. There are some files in the Emacs tree which are not part of Emacs (eg
618 those included from Gnulib). These are all copyright FSF and (at time
619 of writing) GPL >= 2. rms says may as well leave the licenses of these
620 alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are:
621
622 Gnulib:
623 move-if-change
624 src/getloadavg.c
625 src/gmalloc.c
626 src/md5.c
627 src/md5.h
628 src/mktime.c
629 src/strftime.c
630 src/termcap.c
631 src/tparam.c
632
633 Others:
634 config.guess
635 config.sub
636 doc/man/texinfo.tex
637
638 Note _not_ included in the above are src/regex.{c,h} (rms: "That
639 forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that."), and
640 oldXMenu/insque.c (rms: "We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so
641 definitely relicense that.").
642
643 2. The files that are copyright FSF and AIST, or AIST alone, should be
644 and were updated, ditto the oldXMenu files with FSF copyright, and
645 msdos/is_exec.c and sigaction.c.
646
647 3. lwlib/
648
649 Files originally in Lucid Widget Library were left alone (excludes
650 ChangeLog, etc), ie remain under GPL v1 or later, or v2 or later.
651 (rms: "We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to
652 change it much.")
653
654 4. There are some files where the FSF holds no copyright. These were
655 left alone:
656
657 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html >= v2
658 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html >= v2
659 (above included in lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el)
660 leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map >= v1
661 leim/MISC-DIC/ziranma.cin >= v1
662 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L >= v2
663 leim/SKK-DIC/README >= v2
664 leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el >= v2
665
666 5. At time of writing, some non-Emacs icons included from Gnome remain
667 under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See:
668
669 etc/images/gnus/README
670 etc/images/mail/README
671 etc/images/README
672 nt/icons/README
673
674 \f
675 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
676
677 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
678 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
679 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
680 (at your option) any later version.
681
682 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
683 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
684 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
685 GNU General Public License for more details.
686
687 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
688 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.