PSARC/2008/494 GNU emacs

[Bart Smaalders]

James Carlson wrote:
> Bart Smaalders writes:
>> James Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> We're setting ourselves up for yet more reasons (besides the usual
>>> "resources" one) to deliver stale software if that issue and related
>>> legal problems aren't solved.
>>>
>> By this argument we should stop shipping any new gnu software.
>> What is your intent?
> 
> Are all GNU projects moving to GPLv3?  I'd thought that wasn't the
> case.
> 

Over time, I expect most will do so.

> In any event, I was asking about this one particular project, and not
> about arbitrary other projects that might exist.  This one notes that
> it's going to deliver both the first and (effectively; unless
> something else changes) last versions of that particular package, and
> one based on an older version, which is unlike all the other "include
> everything" projects that has come by for review.
> 
> By your argument, do they all just get frozen in time?  What is your
> intent?

I want emacs in the wos.  I do not want to see it held hostage to 
legal's inability to come to terms w/ gplv3.

> 
> If they all do get frozen, then that stinks, and it makes hash of the
> whole rationale for trying to ship them in the first place.
> 

The gplv3 mess will get resolved.  I don't want to see this or other
projects held up until it happens; I'd much rather have a slight old
version of emacs for a while rather than none at all.

- Bart

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