Re: GPLv3 or later -- Lispref files refers to text in lispref.text

Jerry James wrote: How it could be distributed already, if not? Well, mistakes may always happen. But while re-licensing, it must not being coupled with a license-check IMO. Its a declaration of the conditions you publish that code now. It concerns distribution, not authorship. Should some none-free code have been slipped in, then thats already the case now, not a matter of GPLv3. Already it's assumed, all files have GPL compatible licenses if any. If not, its assumed simply being free, public domain. All the Emacs Lisp language code already is GPL, can't imagine writing anything anti-GPL with it. I mean you can savely assume all code written for (X)Emacs and sent in is meant to be distributed with it, is meant to be with a license up to date. Anything else would bring the work of the author simply out of use, which probably is not the intent. Otherwise, should some author arg against publishing under GPLv3, its time to remove that code still. Do you imagine an example, how someone might object GPLv3 with the consequences seeing removed its code? I may be wrong, well. Just my opinion so far. BTW what about to make an announcement at the XEmacs html-site, telling authors about the license-change and asking them to contradict if not agreed, assuming consent otherwise? Cheers Andreas _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta