Re: Licence question
Martin Buchholz writes:
>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur
<steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
sb> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
>> The XEmacs info files still have the GPL v1 as the first node. Is that
>> intentional?
sb> What difference does it make so long as it is GPL?
If we take material from GNU Emacs covered by GPL Version 2, then it
cannot be incorporated into a file covered by GPL Version 1. GPL
versions are forward, but not backward, compatible, because of the
phrase
or (at your option) any later version.
in the copyright notice.
I doubt that any of the current developers has the right to
change the licensing terms (v1 to v2, or v2 to anything else)
anyway. Multiple people/entities claim copyrights to the source
code and none of them are developing XEmacs currently. So the
point is probably moot. We're stuck with the current licensing
terms, whatever they are.