Re: debian-bug.el in Emacs? (was: Status of the bug tracker testbed)

[Peter S Galbraith]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27 2008, Don Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 27 2008, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >> > Most of those commands are implemented in debian-el (debian-bug
> >> > and gnus-bts iirc) which have some bits which may be useful
> >> 
> >> Is the authorship of these clear
> >
> > It's documented in the el files for them.
> >
> >> and are the authors willing to sign legal papers for Emacs
> >> (copyright assignment or disclaimer)?
> >
> > I've no clue; they are all GPLv2 or later, however.
> 
> What do people think about adding it to Emacs and adapting it for the
> Emacs bug tracker?
> 
> ,----
> | ;; debian-bug.el --- report a bug to Debian's bug tracking system
> | 
> | ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | ;; Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Peter S Galbraith <address@hidden>
> | ;; Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Peter S Galbraith <address@hidden>
> `----
> 
> The major contributors seem to be Francesco Potortì and Peter S
> Galbraith.  AFAICS, Peter Galbraith's assignment only covers MH-E, but
> I suppose he'd be willing to sign papers for other parts of Emacs as
> well.  According to the ChangeLog (included in the file), there are
> few (small?) contributions from other authors.
> 
> Peter?

Sure.  I haven't followed the conversation, so I'm not sure whether you
want to adapt it to the Emacs BTS (either as a fork or as a unified
version) or simply use bits of it.  But copyright assignment from me
wouldn't be a problem.

Peter

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