Re: Credits for imported files

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>,
>     [email protected],
>     [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:51:56 +0900
> 
>  > | ;;   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 
>  > (AIST)
>  > | ;;   Registration Number H14PRO021
> 
> That's weird (AIST is a Japanese government organization, why they
> would be contributing on an annual basis, and no FSF?

AFAIK, that comes from some special arrangement AIST had with the FSF.
I don't know the details, but I guess Handa-san is still much closer
to you than to me, so you should be able to ask him directly.

> was Friedman an AIST employee?

No, never.

The AIST copyright is there because the original hebrew.el, with a
single input method (the 1st one), was written by Handa-san or maybe
someone else at AIST.
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