>
> > On a side note, I'm curious about 3: given the code is already GPL v3,
> are we allowed to simply implement
> > the Emacs string-* function using s.el? or copy-paste from it? WARNING I
> know this is a very touchy
> > subject and my goal is not to offend anyone, especially not the author
> of this wonderful library, I am just
> > genuinely curious of what is allowed and what is not in this case. I'd
> not like to do that without the author
> > consent.
>
> If you copy someone's code, the code is still theirs, and we need both
> a permission from them to use it and a copyright assignment to include
> that in Emacs.
>
> If we are thinking about reimplementing those function, then the
> person who is reimplementing is well advised not to look at all at the
> original code, but just work from requirements or from an idea of the
> implementation described by someone else.
>

Got it. And implementing those `string-*` functions using `s.el` is not
possible, because that's require `s.el` being distributed with Emacs which
would require copyright assignments, correct?

Philippe