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Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:31 +0900 |
Richard Stallman writes:
> In fact (Richard, would you please confirm?) it may be a good idea to
> use the Lisp implementation as a base to avoid legal issues if it
> looks "too much like" XEmacs code (the problem is that AFAIK you have
> looked at the XEmacs code, so couldn't swear that it's not an
> unintentional copy of someone else's code).
>
> That is valid in general, but is it an issue here? Our old C code was
> written by me, mostly.
Well, of course any code in Emacs has all the necessary papers.
But as I understand it, Andreas wants to code in C so he can borrow
techniques he saw in the XEmacs code. It's fairly likely that code
varies significantly from your code.