Re: Licensing, was elvis package
> emacs needed to work with motif to run on proprietary operating systems
Uhh, that's deep into fantasy land. Emacs didn't use *any* widget set
until emacs19, and emacs18 worked all over the place (and the problems
it had on newer platforms had far more to do with memory allocation
than window system.)
The motif code in emacs is relatively new, and totally cosmetic. I'll
try and find out from some FSF people if there was anything that
specifically made Motif fit in that extension class [which, as I
recall, was specifically written to let you link against *libc* on
a proprietary system!] or if it was just availability combined with
people actually writing GPLed code that used it...
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