XEmacs and GPLv3

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Gary Foster writes:

 > I'm merely stating that he does have a point in stating that there is 
 > serious overlap, he makes a valid point (albeit an incomplete one) and 
 > it should be brought up in the discussion.

OK.  However, I'd already made the same point (maybe you didn't see
it, it may have been on -review or threaded incorrectly due to
spamtrapping of Kean's posts), so I took your post as a little more
approving than you intended it, I guess.

 > licensing, I don't have a problem with my code being relicensed if the 
 > whole project goes that way (which it looks like it is).

I don't think we have a choice if we want to remain a viable fork of
GNU Emacs.  I've seen several people suggest a ground-up rewrite of
Emacs recently, and that would give us a choice.  (Some who can code
as fast as Ben Wing, so it's not an idle threat.)  Sad to say, they
want to rewrite GNU Emacs, so it's a non-starter. :-(