Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>   > Perhaps apropos of the recent copyright discussions: there's a fair
>   > bit of BBDB code still in there. I haven't gone through and measured,
>   > but my top-of-the-head guess is around 15-20%. I've noted this fact in
>   > the comments sections of the files, including the names of original
>   > authors where applicable.
>
> Alas, this does raise a copyright issue.  To include this in Emacs, we
> need to get legal papers from all the contributors of code that is
> still in your version (including you).  With the exception of anyone
> whose contributions to Emacs (including this package) will be minimal
> (under 10 lines or so).

Okay, I think I've sorted everything out except for one chunk of one
file, where I haven't yet been able to contact the author. I think I
might just take that chunk out for now, and get the package moving. Just
for background, Roland reminded me of this prior related discussion:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01888.html

I think I've cleared everything but that one chunk of ebdb-gnus.

If that's okay, I'll do a few more compiler-warning cleanups, and add
the package as an external.

Thanks,
Eric