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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:23:07 -0500
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    There might be some, but if they rely on Emacs-23 features, such a license
    would be illegal, AFAIK.

That would indeed be a bad problem.  And if they don't use Emacs-23 features
and the result is that they are licensed incompatibly with it, that would
also be a bad problem.

I will write to Schroeder presently.