Principals

Posted Mar 4, 2005 20:13 UTC (Fri) by komarek (guest, #7295)
In reply to: Principals by Ross
Parent article: A day in the life of emacs

I see that you are right about the GPL, and I agree then that the problem is probably copyright assignment. Now that it's not so late at night, I've taken the time to read http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html, and this verifies the copyright assignment problem.

Back to the original reason I posted, sp_ware's comment that RMS wants to be a dictator still seems wrong and ignorant. That he set up the FSF and GNU projects, and gave up his copyrights to the FSF, suggests strongly that he does not want to be a dictator. Any disdain he shows for competing Free software could easily come from disliking the waste of effort of duplication (that xemacs link above quotes him on this, w/r/t XEmacs).

Thank-you for pointing out my mistake.

-Paul Komarek