>
>  I am a bit confused now, I cloned originally via
>
>  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
>
> And then ever pulled from it from time to time. That is what?, master or
> emacs-25?
>

By default the origin/master will be cloned.

I use the below to FORCE update to emacs-25

                                 git fetch --all
                                 git checkout origin/emacs-25
                                 git reset --hard origin/emacs-25

Right, I wanted to wait till I am again in Germany, since I could to it
> electronically while I can't while I am in Spain, progress, sigh
>

Cool!

Ah well, I provided some functionality but I think the person who really
> contributed heavily to matlab-mode.el is Eric Ludlam, who unfortunately
> is too busy to maintain matlab-mode.el, so I just  stepped in.
>

Thanks though for keeping the maintenance alive.

Ah well there are two problems with that:
>
>     -  a technical one. The real difference between these two packages
>        IMHO is their shell. The relevant matlab code was written over a
>        very long period of time (starting in 91), is very matlab
>        specific and looks very complicated to me. I am not really sure
>        that anyone besides Eric understands it.
>
>     -  a copyright issue. I did not discuss this in detail on this list,
>        but RMS asked me why the code could not be in ELPA instead of
>        being in MELPA and the reason is that MathWorks has some
>        copyright over some parts of the code and it is very very
>        unlikely that they will transfer that copyright to the FSF. The
>        code is under GPL2+ though.


Understood. matlab-mode.el was just an example. I used to express that once
you have the copyright paperwork, it's much easier to contribute to Emacs
:) But it's great that you are already looking into it.

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Kaushal Modi