On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 6/17/10 8:59 AM, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Moving existing Lilypond mode stuff into Emacs upstream will require > > copyright assignments to the FSF. A fast hunch whether authors of the > > current Lilypond mode can be determined with sufficient precision (for > > legal accountability) and would be sympathetic to that, or whether I > > should rather have to start from scratch? > > I would guess that authors can be determined, and that they would be > sympathetic.
My hunch is that authors can be determined, and the ones you can contact would be sympathetic. However, my guess is that half the authors of our Emacs stuff will not be contactable for various reasons. I don't know how picky the FSF is about this, nor how important the existing work is. I personally would allocate 30 minutes for looking through git history, and try to figure out how many authors are still active with lilypond. I really don't know how it works if A and C are both active, but B did a lot of work (and is not contactable), but if B's lines of code are no longer present because of patches from A->B->C... it's a messy area. Frankly, if it would take me less than 5 hours to re-implement everything from scratch, I'd probably do that. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
