He has been brought in on the first issue, at least:
| From: Uwe Assmann assmann@dagstuhl.de | Subject: Re: Pike autodoc syntax support -> (FSF) Emacs | To: Johan Sundström johsu@ida.liu.se | Cc: Uwe Assmann uweas@ida.liu.se, | Martin Stjernholm mast@roxen.com | Date: Tue Nov 12 18:22:19 2002 +0100 | | Johan Sundström wrote: | | > Hi! | > | > I just heard from Martin Stjernholm (who maintains the Emacs cc-mode | > package, which handles c-mode, c++-mode, pike-mode and some other | > languages) that he would like the pike autodoc comment handling to the | > main Emacs tree (today it lives in the shadows of the Pike repository as | > Pike/7.3/tools/pike.el and is © IDA since June). Quoting his request: | > | > > I've written most of the font locking code in tools/pike.el. Now I'd | > > like to move the parts that handles autodoc comments to CC Mode. Would | > > there be any license problems doing that? The code will then fall | > > under the copyright assignment agreement I have with the FSF. | > | > Such a move would mean that future Emacsen come with syntactic help for | > pike autodocs bundled, rather than as an add-on package from a separate | > source (us). It probably involves signing over that file, or a version | > thereof, to the Free Software Foundation. I presume we won't have to | > involve any other people at IDA to settle this? | > | > -- | > / Johan Sundström (part 1 of the autodoc instrumentation master plan? ;) | | This is a good idea, but I cannot answer the copyright question at the | moment. We must look up the contract for that. But I hope it is no problem. | Is emacs and its libraries under GPL or LGPL? | | /Uwe
Emacs is GPL, so the file couldn't stay in the Pike cvs due to GPL tainting if IDA were to "get it" through FSF. But the "back licensing" from FSF to the contributor isn't bound by GPL afaics, so that shouldn't be a problem either if IDA contributes it directly to the FSF or gives me the copyright so I can release it under e.g. BSD as well as using it in CC Mode.
Anyway, it's no big deal if pike.el has to disappear from the Pike cvs. It'll still be available from the CC Mode web site, and it'll soon be useless anyway.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2002-11-12 12:13: Subject: pike.el
It is really worth to bring these issues up with Uwe. All the stuff listed in COPYRIGHT has licenses that allows us to package it with the licenses we do.
/ Martin Nilsson (Fake Build Master)