GPL v3

[Mats Lidell]

Hi,

In a private communication with Stephen J. Turnbull related to the 
release and sync of Hyperbole 5.0.1 to the package tree we came into the 
subject of Copyrights and GPLv3 that is of a broader interest. So I move 
the discussion to the list ...

> BTW, Stallman just announced on emacs-devel that Emacs is going to
> start moving to GPL v3 as soon as it's approved by the FSF, so you
> should probably check if that distribution was under the "or later"
> clause, or (like Linux) only v2.

According to the copyright statements in the README and the texinfo 
manual it is the "or later" variant.

 > In case it's not obvious, the first synch of v3 code will flip all of 
 > XEmacs to v3.  Also, this is not a surprise, we've known it is coming 
 > for over a year now.  But we do need to think about how to respond.

Hmm.. Well I was just about to start working on 5.0.2 for getting a 
v3-version out. What is the problem? This is a package. How can that 
"flip all of XEmacs"?

Yours
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%% Mats