xemacs merge?

xemacs merge?

Posted May 10, 2007 7:46 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: "stay the course" vs. fork? (forking the question thread, ok?) by TxtEdMacs
Parent article: A tale of two release cycles

I read that the xemacs group wanted to merge back into emacs, within the last year or so. It was my impression that RMS rejected the offer out of hand

I have not heard of that, but if they wanted to merge, the FSF would want them to assign the copyright to the FSF, and I don't think the xemacs people can do that. Their distributed copyright situation also means that they cannot switch their manual to the GFDL, and thus xemacs cannot incorporate parts of the GNU Emacs manual.

---

(Log in to post comments)