GPL v3

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Malcolm Purvis writes:

 > I understand that at some point all of Emacs CVS is going to be
 > re-licenced v3.  Code present in Emacs up to that point we can sync with
 > freely, but syncing with code after that point would cause XEmacs to be
 > re-licenced v3 as a consequence.  The re-licensing is a problem because
 > we haven't decided yet if we want to use v3 at all.
 > 
 > Have I understood this correctly?

Yes.

Except that there's a theoretical possibility they can relicense
everything in CVS retroactively, despite the notices in old CVS
versions, and it might stand up in court.  They can't do that if we
already have a copy.  They probably won't, but I'd like to have the
option to stick with GPLv2 for a while.  It's not like there isn't
plenty of stuff in v22 to keep us busy sync'ing. :-(  Or :-)

Glass-half-full-vs-glass-half-empty-ly y'rs,