Date: 18 May 2000 14:34:29 -0500 From: William M. Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com&gt; To: Toni Brkic <Toni.Brkic(a)st.com&gt; Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: Hi Toni Brkic <Toni.Brkic(a)st.com&gt; writes: > I read the Emacs vs XEmacs and I have an question that I am curious of. > > Emacs is based on FSF emacs19 which is gpl, doesnt that make XEmacs GPL? > I have this question since Stallman is ranting about that emacs developer > cant use code that is in XEmacs for emacs. XEmacs is GPLd, richard's problem is that the FSF does not own the copyright, so would not be able to defend a combined work in court. For some code in XEmacs, the author is either unknown, or they are (or their employer is) unwilling to assign copyright to the FSF,