Re: ruby-mode.el paperwork

[Glenn Morris]

Phil Hagelberg wrote:

> There are two authors, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Did they ever answer the following question:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg01512.html

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote (on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 at 18:02 +0900):
   
   > * there were other contributers in past, but we can't contact
   > them now.
   
   Richard Stallman said that if the two of you are willing to sign
   assignments, we can ask a lawyer whether we need to worry about
   unknown authors. Can you estimate how much code these other
   contributors wrote (in total, and per author)?
   
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00364.html