Re: Re: [Ilisp-devel] ILISP License Status.

Em Qui, 2002-07-18 às 13:15, Matthias Koeppe escreveu:
> Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Looking at the existing COPYING file (primarily the "Any work
> > distributed or published ..." clause) it seems to me that GPL would be
> > a closer match for the terms there than LGPL, for what that's worth.
> > But I also note the bit where it says -
> >
> > | ILISP if freely redistributable. Eventually it may become part of GNU
> > | Emacs and it will in that case comply with the GPL.
> >
> > Perhaps you could get the Emacs people to include it in Emacs so that
> > it automatically gets relicensed? :-)
> 
> Getting it into GNU Emacs (as distributed by the FSF) would be hard,
> because the FSF would want legal papers from every contributor.  (That
> would be more work than for simply changing the license.)  But doesn't
> XEmacs count as a version of GNU Emacs? 

	No. Stallman has serious legal objections regarding XEmacs that never
were resolved. And that will never be.

	Regs
	Henry
	[email protected]







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