Re: Stallman's world domination tour

"Sean C. Farley" <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:30:46 -0500 (CDT)

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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:44, Anthony Taylor wrote:

> The FSF does suggest you sign over the copyright to the FSF for legal
> reasons, but does not require nor request this.)

Actually, it does happen.  You should read this link (The FSF Point of
View):  http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html

I especially find this paragraph interesting:

    But this is worse than competition--it is unfair competition. The
    XEmacs developers can and do copy code they like from Emacs.  If I
    could copy the code I like from XEmacs in the same way, at least the
    rivalry would be fair.  But I can't do that, because substantial
    parts of XEmacs don't have legal papers, or don't have known
    authors.

Sean
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