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

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

>> Most users needs *binary* [X]Emacs distribution and sophisticated
>> package system (like XEmacs has) that lets the end user to update
>> his/her system without downloading and recompiling everything.
>
> These days, I tend to update Emacs on my local machine automatically
> together with everything else by running dselect.  I _do_ remember the
> time when I downloaded and compiled everything myself, but I disagree
> that doing that is what most users need these days.

All XEmacs packages are already precompiled. You may include them in the
distribution, my update them off the XEmacs website, or may create
the neccessary .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.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry