FreeBSD Port: emacs-22.0.99_1

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Anyway, did you have a specific concern about GPLv3?
>
> I was mostly concerned about local patches which we have 'backported'
> from CVS trunk of GNU Emacs to the editors/emacs port, to unbreak GTK+
> builds.
>
> Should we sign papers with the FSF to 'distribute' builds of this  
> port?
> Do we need to change anything from the way we handled GPLv2  
> versions of
> GNU Emacs in the Ports tree? .. and so on.

The FSF probably would like people who *submit* substantial patches  
to GNU projects to sign a contributor agreement, but of course one  
doesn't have to do so in order to use, modify, or even redistribute  
GPLv{2,3}'ed code.

It might be the case that pinging <licensing at fsf.org> would provide  
you authoritative feedback from them rather than just my random  
opinion....  :-)

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-Chuck