Why Haven't XEmacs and GNU Emacs Merged?
As a result from a posting in texinfo-bug, I had an email conversation
with rms, who was interested in what the FAQ said on Emacs/XEmacs
indifferences. Now I'd like to know whether the XEmacs developers
have anything against med using the term Emacs to denote the version
of emacs currently maintained by rms and others, XEmacs about our
version, and emacs when talking about emacs as a concept or class of
application. I'd rather see that the FAQ stops using the term FSF
Emacs - as rms disapproves of this name.
While I used to think that the current split is a result of technical
discord, rms's view is that it's a matter of getting all authors of
XEmacs to sign the legal papers regarding the GPL.
Even though it may be reasonable to maintain two emacs development
efforts, it'd still be worthwhile to get the legal papers signed,
wouldn't it?
Those interested may look up this article:
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