Re: Should nXML be included

[David Kastrup]

Peter Heslin <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>
>> James Clark appears to be difficult to contact these days, however,
>> which might prove an obstacle for inclusion.
>
> Not necessarily.  The files in question say that they are copyright FSF,
> and I assume that James has papers on file for the other parts of Emacs
> that he has contributed.  I hope these would cover nxml too.
>
> An example header:
>
> ;;; nxml-mode.el --- a new XML mode
>
> ;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> ;; Author: James Clark
> ;; Keywords: XML

Copyright headers are not necessarily correct.  That's why one needs
the written assignment on file for contributions.  If James has an
assignment that only covers his (explicit) contributions to Emacs, he
most certainly can't be held responsible for the accuracy of some
headers in a file he never contributed to Emacs.

-- 
David Kastrup