From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:27 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194135115 27922 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2007 00:11:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, andreas.roehler@online.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 04 01:11:58 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 1IoT5p-0005Lf-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:11:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoT5e-0003aG-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoT5N-0003Mi-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoT5N-0003LX-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoT5M-0003LE-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoT5L-0000ol-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoT5L-000804-Eu; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <87pryrkr8n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:82466 Archived-At: 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.