ess/debian/copyright

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

>>>>> "RoSp" == Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>>>>     on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:38:18 -0500 writes:

RoSp> 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 Emacs would soon be out of date.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

RoSp> Hi Stephen:

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

> I have very similar doubts as Rodney,
> but would also agree to sign copyright transferal to the FSF if
> you'd want to go into that direction, Stephen.

I am happy to do this as well (and then I've done it before for the
Octave stuff I had written).

Best
-k

> Since you, Stephen, seem to volunteer to do the extra work that
> this would entail, I am also not opposed.
> Martin

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