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Dear Xemacs Folk,
I read your description of the differences between Xemacs and GNU Emacs
and the reply of Richard Stallman on the same web page. I read
your description as a catalog of technical issues. I read Stallman's as
a
request for legal papers in accord with the GPL. At the risk of stating
the
obvious, to say you diverge on technical issues seems to miss the point
of
Stallman's request. He does not question the technical choices you
make,
but asks only that you provide legal papers in accord with the GPL.
Why don't you respond on that issue in the discussion on your web page?
I would like to hear your views on that.
James Risbey
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I read your description of the differences between Xemacs and GNU
Emacs
and the reply of Richard Stallman on the same web page. I read
your description as a catalog of technical issues. I read Stallman's as
a
request for legal papers in accord with the GPL. At the risk of stating
the
obvious, to say you diverge on technical issues seems to miss the point
of
Stallman's request. He does not question the technical choices you
make,
but asks only that you provide legal papers in accord with the GPL.
Why don't you respond on that issue in the discussion on your web page?
I would like to hear your views on that.
Short answer...I'm lame. I haven't had time to update that text
since I started working on the project a few months ago.
Basically, we have code from various sources that won't assign
copyright to the FSF. RMS requires copyright assignment (he has made
an exception in the past for Japanese support). So, FSF Emacs and
XEmacs can't merge.
You say "request for legal papers in accord with the GPL". It is just
that -- a request. Nothing in the GPL requires copyright assignment
to the FSF and if it did, it would be useful for only FSF projects.
RMS wants copyright assignment because he thinks having other
copyright holders compromises the ability of the FSF to defend the
GPL.
XEmacs is free software and nothing can change that. But is not FSF
free software.
I don't know the full history of everything. But if you have further
questions, I can research it.
-sew
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