Re: GPL v2 only,please

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I have no reliable clue which will go first: Emacs 22 or GPLv3 (certainly hope for the former, since it is high time). If it is the latter, it is to be expected that Emacs will be made the forerunner for the latter. That would make the problems start right away: synching XEmacs to some prerelease of Emacs 22 would likely import some problems fixed in the final release, synching to Emacs 21.4 would be a waste of lots of developments. Even if GPLv3 would come later into Emacs' life, that would just postpone the problem. And licensing problems don't tend to get easier by waiting. You mean: their effect on corporate contributions. The way it looks, I think the uptake will be positive from corporations: the apparently corporatically attractive CPL and similar licenses are incompatible with GPLv2 mostly because of GPLv3-like patent provisions. As one example, Sun has expressed quite a bit of intentions about releasing OpenSolaris under GPLv3 once it is out (taken with a big grain of salt, but nevertheless). Which would actually be a setback for GNU/Linux in some camps, and thus a quite interesting business move, if they actually follow through. Anyway, I get the impression that the main rationale for shooting the messenger in this thread has shifted to "I don't like his face". Well, I suppose I can live with that. -- 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