XEmacs and FSF `Points of View' in
<
URL:http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html> talk about
entirely different things. `XEmacs' section is concerned mainly with
technical issues, with lack of organizational ones, while `FSF'
section consists entirely of organization issues.
In particular, there is really lack of information about legal issues
concerned with contributing to free software projects. FSF states
legal formalities that are required in this case in
<
URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/standards.texi> and on
<URL:http://www.gnu.org>. For XEmacs project one can not get similar
policy information just as easily.
<
URL:http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/index.html> just invites to `submit
patches to the mailing lists.
The main question is: if one wishes to `make a nontrivial
contribution' to XEmacs, what legal formalities are required from him
according to XEmacs project policy? Perhaps the policy is requiring
as little as possible, but I'd rather see this `little' stated
explicitly.