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From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves)
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Subject: Re: Copyleft
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Date: 23 Nov 88 18:06:11 GMT
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In article <8811231526.AA23326@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA writes:
>This question is basically for RMS.
>You'd like folks to attach copylefts to code sent to this list (and it's
>not such a bad idea to do for other code also).
>  However the darn copyleft is AWFULLY long.
>  Is there a "generic" copyleft one might include by reference...
>....
The problem here is that most people don't want to look at the
copyright message time and time again.  I assume the GNU people won't
shorten it so that best way of not viewing it is to have Emacs skip
past the notice whenever a GNU Lisp file is read in.
I'm too lazy to do the following but perhaps someone else will...

Add a function to find-file-hooks that
  1.  Checks to see if the input file is a GNU lisp file (perhaps by
checking on the directory location of the file or by looking for a
copyright message in the 1st line.)
  2.  Move the point and top of screen past all the copyright garbage.
I don't believe all the copyright notices are exactly the same so this
might be a little difficult.
;David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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