From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Allan Webber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:37:52 -0500 Message-ID: <87zj00wrfm.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87pp0yktyx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <22029.59130.54156.957525@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443843626 12035 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 03:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 03:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 05:40:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiDgH-0000Jr-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 05:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiDgG-00073F-Dl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiDgE-000736-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiDgA-0001Ws-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:60357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiDgA-0001WY-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from earlgrey (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA00E26748; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 23:40:09 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.116.34.160 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190763 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull writes: > >> Emacs's GPL being a fact, I would hope John would keep his mouth shut about >> his disagreement while wearing his GNU Emacs maintainer hat (not limited to >> participation in Emacs lists). > > I like this, Stephen. Yes, Emacs is, and likely always will be, GPL-licensed. > All my own contributions to Emacs have been under the GPL -- in order to be > compatible -- even those developments not distributed with Emacs, like the > Emacs Chess client, or use-package. This seems pretty reasonable to me, and I do think John would be an excellent maintainer of Emacs. Though there may be some philosophical differences, it seems that John is willing to work within the FSF's needs and requirements there. John certainly knows the field can have strong guidance. I'd look forward to a John Wiegley maintained emacs. - Chris