From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18979 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2007 04:41:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 18970 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2007 04:41:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:41:52 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2KQH-0001CJ-VW; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:41:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Copyright updates Message-ID: <20070104044149.GA4414@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20070104011636.GA31905@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:32:06AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Why are we including a package in GDB that is part of Emacs, and > why modify it while doing that? Can't we simply tell people ``use > copyright.el from Emacs''? Pragmatics: Because I needed to modify it to get the results I posted. Otherwise, it has no respect for margins - it would just push things further and further out to the right. And because the version in the last release of emacs was too old to use, and the version in emacs CVS needs to be modified to work with my system's installed emacs. I'm happy to just check in the year updates and hold on to the script if that's controversial (which I realize it may be, given the FSF policy on importing modified files). It's probably possible to rewrite my changes to use an installed CVS emacs and its copyright.el plus a little extra goo, but I can't do it; my Lisp is too weak and I've spent all the time on automating this that I can afford to. Same goes for trying to get the copy in emacs CVS improved. Sorry :-( Another six hours in the day... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery