slander [was: petty squabling]
slander [was: petty squabling]
Posted Jul 4, 2010 5:13 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: slander [was: petty squabling] by vladimir
Parent article: Two GCC stories
> The copyright stuff is a red herring used by RMS to trump any technical arguments.
Ehhhh... GNU emacs requires copyright on code contributions to be assigned to the FSF. XEmacs does not. Therefore, GNU emacs cannot simply take code from xemacs, but xemacs can take code from GNU emacs.
You might claim that GNU emacs shouldn't have the copyright assignment policy, but that doesn't change the fact that they DO have it, and that it would be difficult at this point to figure out how to get assignments for the code in xemacs.