Re: GPLv3 or later code in the packages!?

Mats Lidell writes: Since xemacs-base is distributed separately, it's up to the users to download it and use it with 21.4. Nobody has a leg to stand on complaining about that, as long as we don't fix bugs occasioned by incompatibility of 21.4 with GPLv3 code. The problem if we don't distribute a GPLv3 core is that the FSF can argue that the packages are not a separate product, but rather part of a larger "real" XEmacs product that actually is core + packages, and we're just distributing them separately to avoid complying with the GPLv3 on the packages. We might need to change the name of future sumos so that the name is different from that documented in 21.4 INSTALL and perhaps any packages that GPLv3 code in them. It would be something algorithmic like appending "-to-avoid-fsf-lawuits" (Hi David! but more likely "-gplv3") to package and/or sumo names, and 21.5 (but not 21.4) would know to try those names first. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta