ess/debian/copyright

[Rodney Sparapani]

Stephen Eglen wrote:
> This copyright issue discussion has brought to mind something I've
> thought about for a while:  would we ever wish for ESS to be
> distributed as part of GNU Emacs (can't speak for XEmacs)?  
>
> If putting ESS into GNU Emacs is desirable, copyright papers will be
> needed from all ESS authors past and present; getting the
> debian/copyright file accurate might help in this process, but still
> there may be some authors who would prefer not to assign copyright
> over to FSF (this sometimes happens; e.g. the VM mail reader).
>
> Assuming we can get the papers signed,  it would then be a case of me
> talking to the emacs-devel team to see if they think it appropriate to
> add ESS (i could do that before we go to the effort of collecting
> paperword).
>
> That might be nice... but I do wonder whether it would be worth it:
>
> - Emacs releases are infrequent, so the version of ESS included in
>   Emacs would soon be out of date.
>
> - thanks to Vincent Goulet, windows users already can get ESS for free
>   as part of his Emacs distribution.
>
> - there'd be a slight maintenance issue of uploading ESS into Emacs (I
> could do that).
>
> Stephen
>   
Hi Stephen:

I doubt it is worth all the effort, but, if you send me the paperwork, 
I'll sign it.

Thanks,

Rodney

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