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Article #4583Re: Source code quotes - Gosling's emacs
From: d... Dave Sill
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 13:03
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 13:03
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In article <caycZXD0B...@transarc.com>, Pat_B...@TRANSARC.COM writes: > >... however, GNU emacs is positively not based on Gosling's code. >Stallman (and a cast of thouands...) wrote the original version >of emacs for ITS, and Stallman started from ground zero trying to >make a Unix emacs that looked like ITS emacs (and Gosling's emacs >really isn't very much like ITS emacs). Not quite. GNU Emacs *is* based on Gosling Emacs, but legal problems forced Stallman to rewrite/replace all of Gosling's original code. This has been explained in detail by RMS himself in gnu.misc.discuss. It came up most recently when IBM stopped shipping GNU Emacs on the grounds that the legality of GNU Emacs source was unclear. -- Dave Sill (d...@ornl.gov) Martin Marietta Energy Systems Workstation Support
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!utkcs2!de5 From: d...@de5.ctd.ornl.gov (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Source code quotes - Gosling's emacs Message-ID: <1990Sep24.130303.2801@cs.utk.edu> Date: 24 Sep 90 13:03:03 GMT References: <45024@apple.Apple.COM> <caycZXD0Bwwe0tEkhX@transarc.com> Sender: ne...@cs.utk.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: Dave Sill <d...@ornl.gov> Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lines: 18 Posted: Mon Sep 24 14:03:03 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit