GPL v2 only,please

SL Baur writes: Unfortunately, if you insist on those licensing terms, we would have to change the licensing of the rest of XEmacs to GPLv2-only, since XEmacs is licensed as a whole. I will ask my lawyer, but that's my best guess as to what he'll say. While licensing XEmacs as GPLv2- only may be desirable, it's not a decision to be taken lightly---and AFAICS your contributions will have to sit in limbo until we do take the decision. I'm very sorry. I strongly sympathize with the "I don' need no steenkin' GPLv3, gimme a GPLv2.01" position[1], but the reality is that XEmacs is a GNU Emacs derivative, most users want it to stay that way, and the FSF will likely enforce GPLv3 on Emacs pretty much as soon as it's published. As a practical matter, I believe (after some thought on the matter) it doesn't much matter how much GPLv3 sucks, we can live with it. Specifically, most of the 3rd party software we link to is either GNU software or permissively licensed, and those that aren't are unlikely to be willing to give up their largest body of client software. Footnotes: [1] At least until we see how the anti-patent and anti-DRM provisions play out both in court and in corporate contributions to open source. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta