Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual

Richard, please reconsider. You have a reputation of antipathy towards XEmacs. If you're at all interested in mending fences a little, this would be a very easy step -- simply declare that we are allowed to use the code under our license (which was your license up through 2000 or so). Otherwise you give the impression of actively hindering the XEmacs project. I did not choose this license with a view to its effects on you; it is the general FSF policy for manuals. However, the fact that it is inconvenient for XEmacs does not strike me as a disadvantage. After all, you have been uncooperative towards us for 10 years, and you don't see that as a disadvantage. We don't owe you anything, not even small favors. Despite my well-known and justified antipathy towards XEmacs, I offered to consider changing licenses on parts. However, the response was an ungreatful threat, so I now withdraw that offer. If I did even the slightest thing for XEmacs now, I might give the impression of being a pushover. I ask all Emacs developers not to respond any further to whatever they may say here about this.