Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] a MIME body structure parser for non-IMAP folders in IMAIL

[Chris Hanson]

On 11/28/05, Taylor Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry, I meant to add one other thing to the question: would it have
> to be GPL'd as well?

I'd prefer that, and so would the GNU project, but you can use any
GPL-compatible license for your changes.

I just re-read some of the maintainers' documentation
(http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/) and I see that it's not necessary
to add a copyright line specifically in your name:

    You can also include copyright notices for other copyright holders as well,
    and this is a good idea for those who have contributed a large amount
    and for those who specifically ask for notices in their names.  But you
    don't have to include a notice for everyone who contributed to the file,
    and that would be rather inconvenient.

So I guess it's up to you what you want to do.  We're supposed to have
an AUTHORS file that records who has done what -- although I think the
automatically generated ChangeLog is sufficient.

> OK, thanks.  (Is it a bug that string ports disregard line ending
> normalization settings?)

I guess it's a bug.  The theory of strings is that they are ISO 8859-1
encodings with normalized line endings.  In practice, though, they are
sometimes treated differently (for example as UTF-8 encodings), and
the "theory" is just the default state when you have no additional
knowledge about the string's interpretation.  Consequently, it makes
sense for string ports to support translation when a string is used in
a non-default way.

Probably I was thinking only of the theoretical model when I
implemented string ports.

I'll make this change.