From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <86iq3pav0s.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281034272 29744 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2010 18:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 20:51:11 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 1Oh5X3-00080d-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:51:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh5X3-0005vW-8G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38224 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oh5Wz-0005uZ-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh5Wy-0004Ny-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34064) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh5Wy-0004Ns-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh5Wx-0000Pm-KH; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:51:03 -0400 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <86iq3pav0s.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Thu\, 05 Aug 2010 09\:23\:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:128318 Archived-At: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >>>>>> "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. Even that is not quite the case. Almost none of the Aquamacs changes have even been proposed for inclusion here. Some might be acceptable, but we'll never know as long as there's no desire to merge them...