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

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> >> 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.

Have you really compiled your Emacs from sources? Most people just use the
binary package that is included into their OS distribution. And it's up to
package maintainer whether to include Gnus, say, into emacs-bla-bla.deb, or
create two separate packages emacs-bla-bla.deb and gnus-bla-bla.deb. GNU
Emacs tarball contents has nothing to do with that.

> I would agree that it would be _better_ if Emacs supported a package
> system so that Gnus could be released more frequently,

It generally does not matter if GNU Emacs has package system or not. Even
if it has not, OS packages are enough. Obviously FSF copyright policy does
not affect them.

> but last time I saw the discussion about package systems on emacs-devel I
> got the impression that RMS didn't like it.

One more reason to choose XEmacs :-)

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry