future of quail

[Eric S. Johansson]

On 2/15/2011 6:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Julian Bradfield<jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org>  writes:
>
>> On 2011-02-15, David Kastrup<dak at gnu.org>  wrote:
>>> Julian Bradfield<jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org>  writes:
>>>

My view on these license wars just to be somewhat more pragmatic. One of the 
things that contributed to my disability was participating in license wars and 
arguing about the benefits of one form of licensing versus another. High 
emotion, angry typing all contributed to damaging my hands. From this insight, I 
learned that in the short-term licenses don't matter. People ignore them and you 
either want to get some software released or you want to argue. If you want to 
get some software released, you're engaging in productive activity. If you want 
to argue, you are keeping others and yourself from engaging in productive 
activities. In the long term, licensing doesn't matter because we are all dead. 
I'm probably closer to that than the rest of you and I simply want to get things 
done.

As I said when I introduced myself, I'm here because Stallman (not his 
licensing) said that there was no way I could create a bridge between 
NaturallySpeaking and Emacs that he could support. here, folks were far more 
pragmatic and seem to be okay with a bridge forming a IP barrier between the two 
worlds which was a welcome relief from fanaticism. We need to carry that lack of 
fanaticism forward into licensing domain.

My request is to take the energy you're putting into arguments on on the 
licensing and get the next revision out. I'm looking forward to getting some 
small tasks that I can use to help teach me something about the build process of 
XEmacs and contribute to the next release in some small way.  let's try to move 
forward and not circle the drain with arguments that were old shortly after the 
introduction of the GPL.