From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:23:15 -0700 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Message-ID: <86iq3pav0s.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281028666 9220 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 17:17:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:17:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 19:17:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh44d-0005lf-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh44c-0002VQ-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35307 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh3Nh-0004zH-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3E9-00031q-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3E9-00030B-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3E6-0007A0-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from red.stonehenge.com ([208.79.95.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from merlyn by red.stonehenge.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:23:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: red.stonehenge.com x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.10.11; tzolkin = 6 Chuen; haab = 4 Yaxkin User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h52PUoGp6O1AB0G4uSEeWcOUoD0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128305 Archived-At: >>>>> "Uday" == Uday S Reddy writes: Uday> Stephen J. Turnbull writes: >> BTW, you forgot David Reitter, who must fork because Aquamacs is >> dedicated to implementing features that make his proprietary platform >> (the Mac) more attractive for users than free platforms -- and such >> features are not allowed as a matter of Emacs policy. Uday> Can't we find a way out of this dilemma? You're confusing the license with the *policy*. It's not the GPL that prevents Aquamacs features from being folded in. It's the Emacs project leads in particular, setting and enforcing policy. I'm not taking a side on this debate, but I did want to clarify the realms properly. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion