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diff --git a/admin/notes/copyright b/admin/notes/copyright index eeeca0fc81..4ab01feeae 100644 --- a/admin/notes/copyright +++ b/admin/notes/copyright @@ -598,6 +598,70 @@ Done: TUTORIAL.eo None known. +** NOTES ON RELICENSING TO GPL3 + +The EMACS_22_BASE branch was changed to GPLv3 (or later) 2007/07/25. + +Some notes: +(see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01431.html) + +1. There are some files in Emacs CVS which are not part of Emacs (eg +those included from Gnulib). These are all copyright FSF and (at time +of writing) GPL >= 2. rms says may as well leave the licenses of these +alone (may import them from Gnulib again). These are: + + Gnulib: + src/getloadavg.c + src/gmalloc.c + src/md5.c + src/md5.h + src/mktime.c + src/strftime.c + src/termcap.c + src/tparam.c + + Others: + config.guess + config.sub + lispintro/missing + man/texinfo.tex + +Note _not_ included in the above are src/regex.{c,h} (rms: "That +forked version is only in Emacs, so definitely relicense that."), and +oldXMenu/insque.c (rms: "We wrote that specifically for Emacs, so +definitely relicense that."). + +2. The files that are copyright FSF and AIST, or AIST alone, should be +and were updated, ditto the oldXMenu files with FSF copyright, and +msdos/is_exec.c and sigaction.c. + +3. lwlib/ + +Files originally in Lucid Widget Library were left alone (excludes +ChangeLog, etc), ie remain under GPL v1 or later, or v2 or later. +(rms: "We may as well leave this alone, since we are never going to +change it much.") + +4. There are some files where the FSF holds no copyright. These were +left alone: + + leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau-b5.html >= v2 + leim/MISC-DIC/CTLau.html >= v2 + (above included in lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el) + leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map >= v1 + leim/MISC-DIC/ziranma.cin >= v1 + leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L >= v2 + leim/SKK-DIC/README >= v2 + leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el >= v2 + +5. At time of writing, some non-Emacs icons included from Gnome remain +under GPLv2 (no "or later"). See: + + etc/images/gnus/README + etc/images/mail/README + etc/images/README + nt/icons/README + This file is part of GNU Emacs. |