Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22

[Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>]

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On Feb 20, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> python.el is developed and maintained (outside of the Emacs  
> repository!)
> by Dave Love.  The presence of those 2 versions is undesirable and  
> only
> caused by the fact that we didn't have the required legal paperwork  
> for
> python-mode.  So anything that can bring the two modes closer is good,
> as long as we can keep it in the Emacs repository (i.e. as long as  
> those
> changes come with appropriate copyright paperwork).

It's not worth harping on, but I'm pretty sure that the FSF has had  
copyright assignments for python-mode.el from all the main developers  
for some time now.  OTOH, as Skip points out, python-mode.el can't be  
GPL'd as long as it lives inside the Python tree.  If the rest of the  
Python community is okay with moving python-mode.el out of the Python  
Subversion repository, I'd have no problem GPL'ing it and hosting its  
development on e.g. Launchpad.  Then there should be no reason why the  
two modes can't be converged.

Cheers,
- -Barry

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