From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relicensing Emacs to GPLv3 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fy4b4v0o.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> <87wsxmttl7.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183228449 14633 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2007 18:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Yavor Doganov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 20:34:03 2007 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 4.50) id 1I4hlg-00007O-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:34:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4hlg-0005dd-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4hld-0005dO-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4hlb-0005dC-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4hlb-0005d9-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts25.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188] helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4hlZ-0008RM-Oz; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.55.83.23]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070630183352.GTIB25739.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@ceviche.home>; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5639CB590C; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 30 Jun 2007 11\:10\:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:74068 Archived-At: > Since libcairo uses LGPL version 2.1, I just checked LGPL version 2.1 > again. It says that newer GPL versions can be used. So there is in > fact no problen with libcairo. > Therefore there is no obstacle to relicensing Emacs immediatelky. We > just need someone to volunteer to do the work. We should do the trunk > and all the branches that are considered live, but we don't have to > do all the branches at once. I think we should start with the release branch. Since it's then sync'd to the trunk which is sync'd to the unicode branch, that seems like the best starting place to avoid duplicated work. Stefan