future of quail

[David Kastrup]

Julian Bradfield <jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org> writes:

> On 2011-02-15, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>> Aidan Kehoe writes:
>> > I’d accept it, and be happy to commit it.
>> Not until we have a GPLv3 release, you may not commit it.
>
> When I said bring a few features of FSF into ours, I didn't mean by
> copying code; just by achieving compatibitility, which would also
> enable me to take a similar approach to FSF. 
> I might also see if what I want is in the last GPL2 Emacs, in which
> case I could also copy code.
> I don't want my own fork contaminated by GPL3!

Vocabulary like "contaminated" belongs in the rhetoric of free
software's opponents.  You might want to consider not feeding _their_
propaganda mills, even when your goals don't match that of the Free
Software Foundation.

-- 
David Kastrup