From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VMS support
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:05:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63qwgyjl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5fcc2ui.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:27:33 +0200")
> What is the situation with the VMS support? AFAICT, ttn was working
> on getting it to work again, but I haven't heard anything about this
> project since.
> Emacs 21.2 was the last known-good port, but that requires out-of-tree
> code due to legal issues (specifically: the author of a big chunk of
> VMS-specific code filed in 1992 a "copyright disclaimer" only, which is
> not equal in force to a "copyright assignment" IIUC, and repeated
> attempts to get the (standard) past/future copyright assignment from him
> (by me and perhaps others) have failed, even though he has indicated in
> 200[45]-ish email that he is willing to do so). These legal issues
> might still be resolvable (i can try engaging him again), but i cannot
> say for sure.
The only question that I think is really relevant is: is there some hope
that someone will pursue this work (both the copyright assignment issue
and the update of the code to the Emacs-CVS-trunk codebase) in some
foreseeable future.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-23 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87iquzmcxm.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
[not found] ` <87d4l76ntu.fsf@ambire.localdomain>
2008-07-21 19:52 ` VMS support Chong Yidong
2008-07-23 10:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-23 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-07-24 7:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-24 16:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-24 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 18:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 19:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-27 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 21:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-28 9:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 17:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-24 20:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-24 2:23 ` Richard M Stallman
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