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: Release plans Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:18 +0900 Message-ID: <87r68kr1v5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> <20080812171404.GB7999@muc.de> <20080813092057.GA3010@muc.de> <20080814083817.GA2593@muc.de> <877iak7xfp.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <873al79akr.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> <87d4k6qm9g.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 1219190514 26690 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2008 00:01:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, hannes@saeurebad.de, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 02:02:46 2008 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 1KVb9u-0005ke-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:02:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVb8w-0001Up-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVb8s-0001Sw-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVb8r-0001SX-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49031 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVb8r-0001SU-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:46524) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVb8c-00053b-B1; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8FC7FFA; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D94E1A25C3; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:19 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under XEmacs 21.5.21 (x86_64-unknown-linux) 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:102697 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman writes: > I will remind you that that was good enough for XEmacs and Qt in your > opinion. > > What opinion are you talking about? About 4 years ago I asked you about whether it was compatible with the GPL to distribute an XEmacs with a Qt interface, given that (a) the X11 version of Qt had been relicensed to GPL, but (b) the Windows version was still under a non-free license. You replied that it was compatible if the build system provided no support for linking Qt on the Windows system, and configure (for Cygwin) warned that Qt is a nonfree library and therefore not supported on Windows. > I do not in general approve of the decisions of the XEmacs > developers, and they don't wait on my approval any more than I wait > on yours. We are unwilling to be dominated by your authority. We do consider your opinions and expertise, however, and of course the FSF is the largest rightsholder in XEmacs (my estimate, by lines of code).