Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
Richard Coleman <coleman(a)math.gatech.edu> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> > They gained a short-term advantage by not asking
contributors for
> > legal papers, the way I do; that endangers the ability to enforce the
> > GPL for XEmacs.[1]
> >
> > Please do not help them win this rivalry. If you don't want to help
> > me, at least please don't urge people to join their camp.
Oh, how the might have fallen!
He's sent that message to many people over the time I've been XEmacs
maintainer.
...
The whole situation is a damn shame, really.
Yes. Sigh.
Footnotes:
[1] Copyright assignment papers or not, I don't know of anyone "in
the XEmacs camp" who has any desire whatsoever to endanger the GPL
status of XEmacs. As far as I'm concerned un-GPLing XEmacs would have
to occur over my dead body.