Re: #!/usr/bin/env tclsh

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

John Dallaway wrote:
> [ moving to ecos-maintainers list ]
> 
> Hi Jifl
> 
> Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 
>> John Dallaway wrote:
>>
>>> This patch simplifies the #! magic used to invoke Tcl scripts by using
>>> "/usr/bin/env tclsh" to find the tclsh executable. Very old Cygwin
>>> installations providing only tclsh83.exe or cygtclsh80.exe are no-longer
>>> supported. Checked-in.
>> Can you please refrain from further non-trivial changes until you have a
>> copyright assignment.
> 
> I do not consider these changes to be copyrightable. Simplification of
> the #! magic for Tcl scripts is more trivial in nature than the
> documentation references I added late last year which we agreed were not
> copyrightable.

Actually you stated that, I did not. I said "probably" and said it was very
much thin ice. I was not happy about it. And I asked you to include those
on the assignment request regardless. This is why I did not ask you to
revert the patch - with a random net contributor I would have.

> What aspect of these changes do you consider to be copyrightable?

It's sailing close to the wind. IANAL and I don't want to need to talk to
one, so under the principle of keeping it simple I have a preference for
19k patches not going in without assignment, for the sake of waiting a very
short time. That's why I was asking for no more, rather than asking you to
revert it.

Thinking about it, resubmitting the assignment request form is probably
OTT. The FSF does not include this information on the assignment itself
IIRC: but they do keep records of the information for legal reasons. So
maybe it is adequate to simply inform assign (AT) fsf.org of the extra
files. If you can do that, I'd be happy. But still hold back on anything
non-trivial in the (unlikely) event they aren't happy.

Jifl
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