Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 7. Mai 2017 um 20:38 Uhr:
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:21:35 +0000
> Cc: 25355@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I guess we can just use the library as-is? It's MIT-licensed.
What do you mean by "use"? Treat it as an optional library, like we
do with image support and GnuTLS? I thought you wanted this feature
to be present in every Emacs, not only Emacs linked against that
library.
I just want to link it statically by adding the required source files to the source tree, like we do for e.g. oldXmenu.
> P.S. Doesn't GNU Diff have code to do this?
>
> Sure, but it's not a library.
Why do you need a library, if you want the code to become part of
Emacs?
I want something that can be used right now without reimplementing the diff algorithm from scratch.
The advantage of Diff is that I think the situation with copyright
assignment will be much easier there ;-)
If this requires copyright assignment, then I'll stop immediately and reimplement this as a dynamic module outside of Emacs. Asking for copyright assignment is way too much work for this.