Re: XEmacs and GPLv3

Kean Johnston writes: While GPLv3 is similar enough to GPLv2 that I would be unwilling to maintain a separate GPLv2 distribution, I definitely plan to tag the tree at the point where we switchover so that your code (and mine! I feel the same was except that I already know that I like v2 better than v3) will be easily accessible to people under GPLv2. Would that satisfy you, too? Note that once the wording is "GPLv2 or later", legally anybody can unilaterally choose to revise that to "GPLv3 or later". That is precisely the point of the "or later" wording. Were you aware of that? If we do not make this change, it is practically infeasible to import changes from GNU Emacs or any GPLv3 packages. AIUI, we can legally distribute individual files under "GPLv2 or later", and (as part of XEmacs) they automatically become v3 or later in some weird legal sense. However, once XEmacs goes to "v3 or later" as a whole, that means that the "default" for contribution is "v3 or later", and we would need to check every contribution for (a) the actual license of the file and (b) whether the new contributor finds that acceptable. There are ways we can improve this situation, but they all require changing our traditional workflow. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta