Re: xemacs wiki
Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.xemacs.design |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] writes: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:39:09 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic said: > >> At the risk of playing the role of that one annoying guy that butts >> into the discussion without knowing what it's about, I'll just note >> that there is no "XEmacs license" -- XEmacs is under the GNU GPL! > > Yes, but you can't mix GPL'ed XEmacs code and GPL'ed Emacs code. Yes you can. Someone can make a separate package under the GPL that contains code from both. Stallman chooses not to use non-assigned code in GNU Emacs, but that's not a problem with our licensing. Exactly the same "issue" exists with any non-assigned GPL source code, e.g. the Linux kernel or Gnome. > Seems the Emacs code has an additional restriction that copyrights > need to be assigned. That restriction is not part of the license, it's just FSF's standard practice. If you were to fork your own Emacs, you wouldn't have to follow it (but you'd have to follow the requirements of the GPL.)