On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Vegard Øye <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this, I'll add #2 to the code immediately, and put #3 on the TODO list.
Thank you. By the way, I haven't been using the TODO list stored in the file "TODO" lately; I've instead been using the bug tracker for all new ideas I've had. This lets other people submit ideas, and gives them equal billing with committers' ideas. But I wonder if the bug tracker is really best to use though.
After some diffing, it seems that revision 14 is most similar to the one that's found on EmacsWiki (there's a docstring which is formatted slightly differently). I'll tag that.
OK.
From Donald R. Robertson, the FSF clerk, in a post forwarded to the mailing list in June:
It's not really an exact science. Copyright protects a somewhat nebulous idea known as expression, and that concept isn't necessarily tied to length of a work. A very short work, like say a poem, may contain copyrightable expression whereas a very long work, like a phone book, may not. A sort of rule of thumb that we use is that something less than 15 lines is unlikely to be copyright significant, while something more than 15 lines is more likely. In the end, the maintainer really has to look at the quality as well as quantity of the work and decide whether it's worth assigning or not.
http://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/implementations-list/2009-June/000044....
Ah, I must've remembered that email wrongly; I apologize for that. Thanks for refreshing my memory.