Re: SCO identifies code?
"Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> Not quite: it's true that they won't accept XEmacs code due to copyright
> issues, but I don't think it's a matter so much of XEmacs saying they
> won't do it, as that in the XEmacs code it's not clear who has copyright
> and tracking down all the people that _might_ have copyright and getting
> them to sign has proved too daunting for the ROI.
Exactly. There have been a number of cases where things moved from
XEmacs to Emacs when it was feasible to get copyright assignments,
and I know a number of the main XEmacs maintainers have signed papers.
It's just not always feasible to do so. And in some cases, even if
it would be feasible to do so, the implementation would be so much
different than the implementation in Emacs that it needs to be
rewritten anyway (ie, internal redisplay stuff).
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