Re: GPL v2 only,please

"SL Baur" <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Backdated activism like this is one of the reason the Free Software Foundation requires copyright assignments for contributions to Emacs. Which would mean that XEmacs as a whole can only be released under GPL V2, spelling an end to synchronization with Emacs (and possibly other Elisp projects) once the latter is moved to GPLv3. Well, I frequently get the impression that several of its developers are doing their best to put a stop to that, and your mail certainly falls into that class. While lashing out against Richard Stallman certainly is quite within the old XEmacs spirit, it would sometimes be nice if people considered the consequences and implications of their actions. Not only will this spell doom for keeping XEmacs competitive, but it will also make the point that Richard Stallman was right from the start in his fuzziness regarding the insistence about copyright assignments, thus not giving any single contributor the possibility to throw a monkey wrench into future development. It is not my task to ask you to reconsider, and I will gladly leave that unthankful task to others, regardless of whether they choose to pick it up or not. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta