Re: future of quail
Julian Bradfield writes:
On 2011-02-15, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> Aidan Kehoe writes:
> > I’d accept it, and be happy to commit it.
> Not until we have a GPLv3 release, you may not commit it.
When I said bring a few features of FSF into ours, I didn't mean by
copying code; just by achieving compatibitility, which would also
enable me to take a similar approach to FSF.
OK, my bad. But please say "this is all my code" or "this is a GPLv2
implementation from Emacs 2x" or whatever when you submit.
I don't want my own fork contaminated by GPL3!
I wouldn't worry about that too much; GPLv2 Emacsen are unlikely to
evolve further, and I doubt your code will get incorporated into the
Linux kernel. :-) GPLv3 terms don't have really horrible disadvantages
vis-a-vis GPLv2's, and there are claimed advantages (but you'd need
to be a real lawyer or maybe live in Germany to evaluate that; they're
nowhere near as obviously useful as copyleft itself is).
Of course, that's up to you, and free advice is typically worth what
you paid for it. But FWIW that's my advice. :-)
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