GPLv2 and later release of my XEmacs contributions

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jerry James writes:
 > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:09 PM, jan vroonhof
 > <jan.vroonhof at googlemail.com> wrote:
 > > Note that I have authored far more of the XEmacs code base than this.

People keep saying that, as if we were trying to steal their credit.
I think we should make a point of saying that "foo.c contains no
permission notice, and we need to confirm the license on that file".

 > > Note that the FSF has a general disclaimer from me on file for all my
 > > Emacs and XEmacs contributions, so they can act on my behalf re
 > > copyright of these.
 > 
 > That's wonderful.  Thank you very much.

Anybody who has assign.future on file is OK; the copyright clerk told
me a while back that the FSF has no problem relicensing any code to
GPLv2+, although I imagine that they would prefer GPLv3+.