Re: How to develop Emacs mode?

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> 
> On 6/17/10 8:59 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> 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