From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:31 +0900 Message-ID: <873avmloiw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <200706201948.06271.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200710281514.00722.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200710301610.10638.andreas.roehler@online.de> <87pryrkr8n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194144094 13005 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2007 02:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 02:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, andreas.roehler@online.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 04 03:41:35 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 1IoVQd-0002ZQ-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:41:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoVQS-0002R8-Rt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:41:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoVQP-0002Or-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoVQM-0002JL-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoVQM-0002J1-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoVQC-0008Vv-LS; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4EC1535A8; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:41:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64EB81A2E12; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:42:32 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070621) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:82481 Archived-At: 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.