From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, andreas.roehler@online.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873avmloiw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IoT5L-000804-Eu@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman writes:
> In fact (Richard, would you please confirm?) it may be a good idea to
> use the Lisp implementation as a base to avoid legal issues if it
> looks "too much like" XEmacs code (the problem is that AFAIK you have
> looked at the XEmacs code, so couldn't swear that it's not an
> unintentional copy of someone else's code).
>
> That is valid in general, but is it an issue here? Our old C code was
> written by me, mostly.
Well, of course any code in Emacs has all the necessary papers.
But as I understand it, Andreas wants to code in C so he can borrow
techniques he saw in the XEmacs code. It's fairly likely that code
varies significantly from your code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-04 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 17:48 Abbrev should preserve case Andreas Röhler
2007-06-20 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-21 3:47 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-21 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21 7:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-21 8:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21 9:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-21 7:00 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-21 17:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22 21:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-10 21:14 ` Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff (was: Abbrev should preserve case) Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 19:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-12 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 21:26 ` Abbrev tables in elisp with some extra stuff Stefan Monnier
2007-10-13 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 17:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-15 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 18:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-16 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-16 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-17 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-17 20:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-25 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 5:44 ` Testing new abbrev tables in elisp Stefan Monnier
2007-10-26 19:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-26 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28 14:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-28 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 15:10 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-10-31 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-03 20:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-04 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 2:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-11-04 21:06 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-11-05 8:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 16:09 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-31 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
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