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Re: [O] Request: Move org-eww from contrib to core
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Rasmus |
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Re: [O] Request: Move org-eww from contrib to core |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:41:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Marco Wahl <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
>> Matt Lundin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Given that the coming release of emacs 25 ships with the eww browser, I
>>> think it would be worthwhile to make org-eww.el a core org-mode module.
>>> I have been using eww instead of emacs-w3m for some time now with no
>>> problems. Since org ships with support for emacs-w3m, an external
>>> package, it seems to makes sense also to support eww, the built-in
>>> browser.
>>
>> In this case, we need to add a mechanism to throw an error when this
>> module is loaded without Eww being available. As a reminder, Org 9 still
>> supports Emacs 24.3.
>>
>>> I noticed that Marco Wahl, the author of org-eww.el, is on the
>>> contributors list, so, if I understand correctly, there shouldn't be
>>> copyright issues.
>>
>> There could be if we integrated patches from people without FSF
>> assignment. I didn't check, but I don't think it happened though.
>
> In 2014 I signed the assignment for Emacs (946878).
>
> (Just curious: is there a public list containing all the assignments?
> Found nothing after duckduckgoing for 5 minutes.)
No. If you have a Fencepost login you can access the list.
Org keeps a public list on Worg, though.
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html
Rasmus
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Enough with the blah blah!