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  > > This could be done by getting copyright assignments for code in the
  > > NonGNU ELPA package, or by writing new code to replace it, or by a
  > > mixture of the two.

  > The issue here is, that the clojure-mode developers are mostly averse to
  > assigning their code to the FSF.

What those people think should not be a crucial issue, because writing
a major mode to handle a language is not a big job.  We have dozens of
them in Emacs.  Lots of us here would be able to replace it.

The trick is to start thinking of it as a module to be written,
rather than as a need for something that we can't have;

  > , but one idea might be to extend lisp-data-mode by whatever the
  > syntactic differences are, to at least have some basic visual support in
  > terms of syntax highlighting and the like.

It is fine to copy some code from an existing mode.  I just advise
people not to try to arrange to share the code between the two modes.
I expect that the sharing would make for more complexity than it is
worth.


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