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1 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 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 aclocal.m4
136 configure
137 m4/*.m4
138 - copyright FSF, with unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify
139
140 lib/Makefile.in
141 - copyright FSF, with MIT-like license
142
143 install-sh
144 - this file is copyright MIT, which is OK. Leave the copyright alone.
145
146 mkinstalldirs
147 src/m/news-r6.h
148 public domain, leave alone.
149
150 etc/refcards/*.tex
151 also update the \def\year macro for the latest year.
152
153 etc/BABYL, ms-kermit
154 no notices (see below).
155
156 etc/emacs.csh
157 - written by Michael DeCorte, who has no assignment. But trivial
158 enough to not need license.
159
160 etc/future-bug
161 - doesn't need a humorless disclaimer, because Karl Fogel says we
162 can consider it part of Emacs, and he has a blanker disclaimer for
163 Emacs changes. (email to rgm "[Emacs-commit] emacs/etc future-bug",
164 2007028)
165
166 etc/letter.pbm,letter.xpm
167 - trivial, no notice needed.
168 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00324.html>
169
170 etc/FTP, ORDERS
171 - trivial (at time of writing), no license needed
172
173 etc/GNU, INTERVIEW, LINUX-GNU, MOTIVATION, SERVICE, THE-GNU-PROJECT,
174 WHY-FREE
175 rms: "These are statements of opinion or testimony. Their licenses
176 should permit verbatim copying only. Please don't change the
177 licenses that they have. They are distributed with Emacs but they
178 are not part of Emacs."
179
180 etc/HELLO
181 standard notices. Just a note that although the file itself is not
182 really copyrightable, in the wider context of it being part of
183 Emacs (and written by those with assignments), a standard notice is
184 fine.
185
186 etc/MAILINGLISTS
187 rms: simple license is fine for this file
188
189 leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit, ARRAY30.tit, CCDOSPY.tit, ECDICT.tit,
190 ETZY.tit, PY-b5.tit, Punct-b5.tit, Punct.tit, QJ-b5.tit, QJ.tit,
191 SW.tit, TONEPY.tit, ZOZY.tit
192 - leave the copyrights alone.
193
194 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html, CTLau.html, cangjie-table.b5, cangjie-table.cns,
195 pinyin.map, ziranma.cin
196 - leave the copyright alone.
197 Note that pinyin.map, ziranma.cin (and hence the generated
198 leim/quail/PY.el, ZIRANMA.el) are under GPLv1 or later.
199
200 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L
201 ja-dic/ja-dic.el
202 (the latter is auto-generated from the former). Leave the copyright alone.
203
204 lib-src/etags.c
205 Copyright information is duplicated in etc/ETAGS.README. Update that
206 file too.
207
208 Until 2007 etags.c was described as being copyright FSF and Ken Arnold.
209 After some investigation in Feb 2007, then to the best of our
210 knowledge we believe that the original 1984 Emacs version was based
211 on the version in BSD4.2. See for example this 1985 post from Ken Arnold:
212 <http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ffe5c55845a640a9>
213 I have received enough requests for the current source to ctags
214 to post it. Here is the latest version (what will go out with
215 4.3, modulo any bugs fixed during the beta period). It is the
216 4.2 ctags with recognition of yacc and lex tags added.
217
218 See also a 1984 version of ctags (no copyright) posted to net.sources:
219 <http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/msg/a21b6c21be12a98d>
220 Version of etags.c in emacs-16.56 duplicates comment typos.
221
222 Accordingly, in Feb 2007 we added a 1984 copyright for the
223 University of California and a revised BSD license. The terms of
224 this require that the full license details be available in binary
225 distributions - hence the file etc/ETAGS.README. The fact that the
226 --version output just says "Copyright <year> FSF" is apparently OK
227 from a legal point of view.
228
229 lisp/cedet/semantic/imenu.el
230 - See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00410.html
231 in which Eric Ludlam established that the remaining contributions
232 from authors other than himself were negligible.
233
234 lisp/play/tetris.el
235 - no special rules about the copyright. We note here that we believe
236 (2007/1) there is no problem with our use of the name "tetris" or
237 the concept.
238 rms: "My understanding is that game rules as such are not copyrightable."
239 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00960.html>
240 rms: Legal advice is that we are ok and need not worry about this.
241
242
243 lisp/net/tramp.el
244 - there are also copyrights in the body of the file. Update these too.
245
246
247 lwlib/
248 rms (2007/02/17): "lwlib is not assigned to the FSF; we don't consider
249 it part of Emacs. [...] Therefore non-FSF copyrights are ok in lwlib."
250
251 NB don't change the GPL version used for lwlib .c and .h files (see
252 below).
253
254 FSF copyrights should only appear in files which have undergone
255 non-trivial cumulative changes from the original versions in the Lucid
256 Widget Library. NB this means that if you make non-trivial changes to
257 a file with no FSF copyright, you should add one. Also, if changes are
258 reverted to the extent that a file becomes basically the same as the
259 original version, the FSF copyright should be removed.
260
261 In my (rgm) opinion, as of Feb 2007, all the non-trivial files differ
262 significantly from the original versions, with the exception of
263 lwlib-Xm.h. Most of the changes that were made to this file have
264 subsequently been reverted. Therefore I removed the FSF copyright from
265 this file (which is arguably too trivial to merit a notice anyway). I
266 added FSF copyright to the following files which did not have them
267 already: Makefile.in, lwlib-Xaw.c, lwlib-int.h (borderline),
268 lwlib-utils.c (borderline), lwlib.c, lwlib.h.
269
270 Copyright years before the advent of public CVS in 2001 were those
271 when I judged (from the CVS logs) that non-trivial amounts of change
272 had taken place. I also adjusted the existing FSF years in xlwmenu.c,
273 xlwmenu.h, and xlwmenuP.h on the same basis.
274
275 Note that until Feb 2007, the following files in lwlib were lacking
276 notices: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h
277
278 The following files did not list a Lucid copyright: xlwmenu.h,
279 xlwmenuP.h.
280
281 To the best of our knowledge, all the code files in lwlib were
282 originally part of the Lucid Widget Library, even if they did not say
283 so explicitly. For example, they were all present in Lucid Emacs 19.1
284 in 1992. The exceptions are the two Xaw files, which did not appear
285 till Lucid Emacs 19.9 in 1994. The file lwlib-Xaw.h is too trivial to
286 merit a copyright notice, but would presumably have the same one as
287 lwlib-Xaw.c. We have been unable to find a true standalone version of
288 LWL, if there was such a thing, to check definitively.
289
290 To clarify the situation, in Feb 2007 we added Lucid copyrights and
291 GPL notices to those files lacking either that were non-trivial,
292 namely: lwlib-int.h, lwlib.h, xlwmenu.h, xlwmenuP.h. This represents
293 our best understanding of the legal status of these files. We also
294 clarified the notices in Makefile.in, which was originally the
295 Makefile auto-generated from Lucid's Imakefile.
296
297 As of Feb 2007, the following files are considered too trivial for
298 notices: lwlib-Xaw.h, lwlib-Xlw.h, lwlib-utils.h.
299
300 The version of lwlib/ first installed in Emacs seems to be the same as
301 that used in Lucid Emacs 19.8 (released 6-sep-93); except the two Xaw
302 files, which did not appear till Athena support was added in Lucid
303 Emacs 19.9. In Lucid Emacs 19.1, all files were under GPLv1 or later,
304 but by Lucid Emacs 19.8, lwlib.c and xlwmenu.c had been switched to v2
305 or later. These are the versions that were first installed in Emacs.
306 So in GNU Emacs, these two files have been under v2 or later since
307 1994.
308
309 It seems that it was the intention of Lucid to use v1 or later
310 (excepting the two files mentioned previously); so this is the license
311 we have used when adding notices to code that did not have notices
312 originally. Although we have the legal right to switch to v2 or later,
313 rms prefers that we do not do so.
314
315
316 doc/*/doclicense.texi
317 - leave the copyright alone in this imported file.
318
319 doc/*/*.texi - All manuals should be under GFDL (but see below), and
320 should include a copy of it, so that they can be distributed
321 separately. faq.texi has a different license, for some reason no-one
322 can remember.
323 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00583.html
324 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00618.html
325
326 doc/misc/mh-e.texi is dual-licensed (GPL and GFDL) per agreement with
327 FSF (reconfirmed by rms Aug 25 2008). Discussion with
328 licensing@fsf.org starting on Thu, 07 Aug 2003 with subject:
329 "[gnu.org #58812] Changing license of MH-E manual"
330
331
332 msdos/is_exec.c, sigaction.c - these files are copyright DJ Delorie.
333 Leave the copyrights alone. Leave the Eli Zaretskii copyright in
334 is_exec.c alone. See the msdos/README file for the legal history of
335 these files.
336
337 msdos/sed*.inp - These files are copyright FSF and distributed under
338 an MIT-like license.
339
340
341 oldXMenu/
342 Keep the "copyright.h" method used by X11, rather than moving the
343 licenses into the files. Note that the original X10.h did not use
344 copyright.h, but had an explicit notice, which we retain.
345
346 If you make non-trivial changes to a file which does not have an FSF
347 notice, add one and a GPL notice (as per Activate.c). If changes to a
348 file are reverted such that it becomes essentially the same as the
349 original X11 version, remove the FSF notice and GPL.
350
351 Only the files which differ significantly from the original X11
352 versions should have FSF copyright and GPL notices. At time of writing
353 (Feb 2007), this is: Activate.c, Create.c, Internal.c. I (rgm)
354 established this by diff'ing the current files against those in X11R1,
355 and when I found significant differences looking in the ChangeLog for
356 the years they originated (the CVS logs are truncated before 1999). I
357 therefore removed the FSF notices (added in 200x) from the other
358 files. There are some borderline cases IMO: AddSel.c, InsSel.c,
359 XMakeAssoc.c, XMenu.h. For these I erred on the side of NOT adding FSF
360 notices.
361
362 With regards to whether the files we have changed should have GPL
363 added or not, rms says (2007-02-25, "oldXmenu issues"):
364
365 It does not make much difference, because oldXmenu is obsolete
366 except for use in Emacs (and it is not normally used in Emacs any
367 more either).
368
369 So, to make things simple, please put our changes under the GPL.
370
371 insque.c had no copyright notice until 2005. The version of insque.c
372 added to Emacs 1992-01-27 is essentially the same as insremque.c added
373 to glic three days later by Roland McGrath, with an FSF copyright and
374 GPL, but no ChangeLog entry:
375 <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libc/misc/insremque.c?\
376 rev=1.1&cvsroot=glibc>
377 To the best of his recollection, McGrath (who has a copyright
378 assignment) was the author of this file (email from roland at frob.com
379 to rms, 2007-02-23, "Where did insque.c come from?"). The FSF
380 copyright and GPL in this file are therefore correct as far as we
381 understand it.
382
383 Imakefile had no legal info in Feb 2007, but was obviously based on
384 the X11 version (which also had no explicit legal info). As it was
385 unused, I removed it. It would have the same MIT copyright as
386 Makefile.in does now.
387
388
389 src/gmalloc.c
390 - contains numerous copyrights from the GNU C library. Leave them alone.
391
392 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
393 - see comments below. These files are OK to be released with Emacs
394 22, but we may want to revisit them afterwards.
395
396
397 ** Some notes on resolved issues, for historical information only
398
399 etc/TERMS
400 rms: "surely written either by me or by ESR. (If you can figure out
401 which year, I can probably tell you which.) Either way, we have papers
402 for it." It was present in Emacs-16.56 (15-jul-85). rms: "Then I
403 conclude it was written by me."
404
405 etc/ulimit.hack
406 Very obsolete file removed March 2007. Doesn't say who the author
407 is, but web-search suggests Karl Kleinpaste, who has no Emacs
408 assignment. Trivial anyway.
409 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/browse_thread/thread/bf3df496994\
410 9f1df/7e5922c67b3a98fb
411 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/cc7e49cacfd1ccb4
412 (original 1987 source)
413
414 lisp/term/README
415 - had no copyright notice till Feb 2007. ChangeLog.3 suggests it was
416 written by Eric Raymond. When asked by rms on 14 Feb 2007 he said:
417
418 I don't remember writing it, but it reads like my prose and I believe
419 I wrote the feature(s) it's describing. So I would have been the
420 likeliest person to write it.
421
422 Odds are that I did, but I'm not certain.
423
424 Accordingly, FSF copyright was added.
425
426 src/unexhp9k800.c
427 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00138.html
428 - briefly removed due to legal uncertainly Jan-Mar 2007. The
429 relevant assignment is under "hp9k800" in copyright.list. File was
430 written by John V. Morris at HP, and disclaimed by the author and
431 HP. So this file is public domain.
432
433
434 K Rodgers changes
435 It was pointed out that K Rodgers only had assigments for VC and
436 ps-print, but had changed several other files. We tried to contact
437 him for a general assignment, but he proved uncommunicative (despite
438 initially indicating to rms he would sign an assignment). As a result, his
439 changes were removed and/or rewritten independently. For details, see
440 threads:
441 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00225.html
442 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00257.html
443
444 But then an assignment arrived before the release of Emacs 22:
445 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01427.html
446
447
448 lisp/progmodes/python.el
449 Dave Love alerted us to a potential legal problem:
450 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html
451
452 On consultation with a lawyer, we found there was no problem:
453 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00466.html
454
455
456 ** Issues that are "fixed" for the release of Emacs 22, but we may
457 wish to revisit later in more detail
458
459
460 admin/check-doc-strings
461 File says it's in the public domain, but that might not make it so.
462
463 etc/BABYL
464 File written long ago by authors with no assignment. Keep them
465 without notices for now, try and contact authors if possible. Be
466 ready to remove these files if the authors ever object.
467
468 etc/ms-kermit
469 etc/e/eterm-color.ti
470 src/acldef.h, chpdef.h, ndir.h
471 On legal advice from Matt Norwood, the following comment was added
472 to these files in Feb/Mar 2007:
473
474 The code here is forced by the interface, and is not subject to
475 copyright, constituting the only possible expression of the
476 algorithm in this format.
477
478 With the addition of this notice, these files are OK for the
479 upcoming Emacs-22 release. Post-release, we can revisit this issue
480 and possibly add a list of all authors who have changed these files.
481 (details in email from Matt Norwood to rms, 2007/02/03).
482
483 etc/ms-7bkermit
484 Says it was written by Andy Lowry and Joel Spolsky. No entry for
485 either in copyright.list. NB this file is not "constrained" like
486 ms-kermit (rms: "We know it isn't. A comment at the front says it has
487 other bindings which might be handy."). File removed March 2007.
488 Re-add if clear up status at some point.
489
490 etc/Xkeymap.txt
491 No info on author. File removed March 2007. rms: "It says it is
492 RLK's way of remapping his keyboard, so it is not constrained. I think
493 it was written by RLK. Let's delete it; if we contact RLK again, we
494 can put it back." Actually, RLK == Robert Krawitz has an Emacs
495 assignment. So this could be restored if it is still useful, but Jan Djärv
496 says it is obsolete:
497 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-03/msg00673.html>
498
499 src/m/mips4.h, news-risc.h, pmax.h
500 src/s/aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, irix4-0.h, irix5-0.h,
501 netbsd.h, sol2-3.h, usg5-4-2.h
502 - all these (not obviously trivial) files were missing copyrights
503 till Feb 2007, when FSF copyright was added. Matt Norwood advised:
504
505 For now, I think the best policy is to assume that we do have
506 assignments from the authors (I recall many of these header files
507 as having been originally written by rms), and to attach an FSF
508 copyright with GPL notice. We can amend this if and when we
509 complete the code audit. Any additions to these files by
510 non-assigned authors are arguably "de minimis" contributions to
511 Emacs: small changes or suggestions to a work that are subsumed in
512 the main authors' copyright in the entire work.
513
514 Here is my (rgm) take on the details of the above files:
515
516 mips4.h
517 might be trivial? started trivial, been added to in tiny changes by
518 those with FSF assignment, often result of email suggestions by others.
519
520 news-risc.h
521 started trivial. Grown by tiny additions, plus chunk
522 from mips.h, which was and is Copyright FSF
523
524 pmax.h
525 started trivial. grown in tiny changes, except for maybe Jim Wilson's
526 comment.
527
528 ? irix4-0.h
529 I would say started non-trivial (1992, rms). only tiny changes since
530 installed.
531
532 ? irix5-0.h
533 I would say started non-trivial (1993, jimb, heavily based
534 on irix4-0.h). A few borderline non-tiny changes since.
535
536 usg5-4-2.h
537 started non-trivial, but was heavily based on usg5-4.h, which was and is
538 copyright FSF. only tiny changes since installed.
539
540 sol2-3.h
541 started trivial. only non-tiny change (1994) incorporated code from
542 usg5-4.h, which was and is copyright FSF.
543
544 aix3-2.h, bsd386.h, hpux8.h, hpux9.h, netbsd.h
545 started trivial, grown in tiny changes.
546
547 netbsd.h:
548 Roland McGrath said to rms (2007/02/17): "I don't really remember
549 anything about it. If I put it in without other comment, then probably
550 I wrote it myself."
551
552
553 Someone might want to tweak the copyright years (for dates before
554 2001) that I used in all these files.
555
556 Note: erring on the side of caution, I also added notices to some
557 files I thought might be considered non-trivial (if one includes
558 comment) in s/:
559 aix4-1.h hpux10.h irix6-0.h irix6-5.h
560 ptx4.h sol2.h
561
562 (everything with > 30 non-blank lines, which at least is _some_ kind of
563 system)
564
565
566 *** These are copyright issues that need not be fixed until after
567 Emacs 22 is released (though if they can be fixed before, that is
568 obviously good):
569
570
571 Is it OK to just `bzr remove' a file for legal reasons, or is
572 something more drastic needed? A removed file is still available from
573 the repository, if suitable options are applied. (This issue obviously
574 does not affect a release).
575 rms: will ask lawyer
576
577
578 Make sure that all files with non-standard copyrights or licenses are
579 noted in this file.
580
581
582 REMOVED etc/gnu.xpm, nt/icons/emacs21.ico, nt/icons/sink.ico
583 - Restore if find legal info. emacs21.ico is not due to Davenport.
584 Geoff Voelker checked but could not find a record of where it came
585 from.
586
587
588 etc/images
589 Image files from GTK, Gnome are under GPLv2 (no "or later"?). RMS will
590 contact image authors in regards to future switch to v3.
591
592
593 etc/TUTORIAL* (translations)
594 switch to GPL (see english TUTORIAL)
595 rms: "We can leave the TUTORIAL translations alone until their
596 maintainers update them."
597 Can adapt short license text from end of GPL translations at:
598 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html
599 Only a few sentences around the license notice need changing from
600 previous version.
601 Done: TUTORIAL.eo
602
603
604 *** These are copyright issues still to be addressed:
605
606 None known.
607
608
609 ** NOTES ON RELICENSING TO GPL3
610
611 The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25.
612
613 Some notes:
614 (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01431.html)
615
616 1. There are some files in the Emacs tree which are not part of Emacs (eg
617 those included from Gnulib). These are all copyright FSF and (at time
618 of writing) GPL >= 2. rms says may as well leave the licenses of these
619 alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are:
620
621 Gnulib:
622 arg-nonnull.h
623 c++defs.h
624 compile
625 config.guess
626 config.sub
627 depcomp
628 doc/man/texinfo.tex
629 missing
630 move-if-change
631 warn-on-use.h
632 lib/*.[ch]
633 lib/gnulib.mk
634 src/getloadavg.c
635 src/gmalloc.c
636 src/md5.c
637 src/md5.h
638 src/strftime.c
639 src/termcap.c
640 src/tparam.c
641
642 Note _not_ included in the above are src/regex.{c,h} (rms: "That
643 forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that."), and
644 oldXMenu/insque.c (rms: "We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so
645 definitely relicense that.").
646
647 2. The files that are copyright FSF and AIST, or AIST alone, should be
648 and were updated, ditto the oldXMenu files with FSF copyright, and
649 msdos/is_exec.c and sigaction.c.
650
651 3. lwlib/
652
653 Files originally in Lucid Widget Library were left alone (excludes
654 ChangeLog, etc), ie remain under GPL v1 or later, or v2 or later.
655 (rms: "We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to
656 change it much.")
657
658 4. There are some files where the FSF holds no copyright. These were
659 left alone:
660
661 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html >= v2
662 leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html >= v2
663 (above included in lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el)
664 leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map >= v1
665 leim/MISC-DIC/ziranma.cin >= v1
666 leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L >= v2
667 leim/SKK-DIC/README >= v2
668 leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el >= v2
669
670 5. At time of writing, some non-Emacs icons included from Gnome remain
671 under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See:
672
673 etc/images/gnus/README
674 etc/images/mail/README
675 etc/images/README
676 nt/icons/README
677
678 \f
679 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
680
681 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
682 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
683 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
684 (at your option) any later version.
685
686 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
687 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
688 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
689 GNU General Public License for more details.
690
691 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
692 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.