Re: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Dmitry Bely wrote:

> >> All XEmacs packages are already precompiled. You may include them in the
> >> distribution, my update them off the XEmacs website, or may create
> >> the necessary .deb packages, that will be handled by apt/dselect. In any
> >> case I fail to understand why having Gnus included into Emacs tarball (and
> >> following FSF copyright policy) is so important.
> >
> > Because it is included?
> 
> So there is no real reason.

Having it included is reason enough for me.

I would agree that it would be _better_ if Emacs supported a package
system so that Gnus could be released more frequently, but last time I saw
the discussion about package systems on emacs-devel I got the impression
that RMS didn't like it.

> This topic was started from Florian Weimer's statement that he cannot any
> longer develop gpg.el because gpg.el does not follow FSF copyright policy
> which is necessary because Gnus is included into GNU Emacs tarball.

Yes, so gpg.el should be removed and replaced with a FSF-owned PGP/GPG
interface IMHO.  There is one called PGG and I'm looking at merging it
into Gnus.