From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:09:55 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <87r68kr1v5.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 1219360305 22822 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2008 23:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, hannes@saeurebad.de, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 01:12:37 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 1KWJKV-0005in-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:12:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWJJS-00055p-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWJJN-000539-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWJJL-0004yF-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50545 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWJJL-0004y2-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42067) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWJJK-0002qX-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KWJHv-0004xh-QH; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:09:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r68kr1v5.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:102796 Archived-At: 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. That sounds right, but it is a different issue.