[AUCTeX-devel] Re: New auctex version coming, and the freeze

[Davide G. M. Salvetti]

>>>>>  DK == David Kastrup [2006-10-2]

This discussion in itself has some interest; however it risks being, as
it is customary with this particular topic, too much heated.  I would
like to comment, but unfortunately at this moment I am not in a position
to discuss with a pace as fast as you do; therefore I will just refrain
myself from commenting, but for what follows.

DK> Anyway, I just got back the reply from Richard Stallman, and we can
DK> leave off the front and back cover texts and invariant sections (the
DK> license text itself will be excluded from being covered by the GFDL
DK> since it obviously is not subject to modification).

This is very good news, and shows that RMS can listen to practical
problems, if they have no political downside (not that I would doubt of
it).

[...]

DK> No part of AUCTeX will end up in Debian non-free without Davide
DK> having to bend Debian rules even slightly.  This is a better
DK> situation than that of Emacs itself, and I am grateful to be able to
DK> save users and developers the respective hassles.

I would like to make it clear that I do not see the need to fork
anything, manual included.  I'm happy with how AUCTeX is being developed
and with how David is doing as the AUCTeX maintainer.  I support AUCTeX
being a GNU project.  I shall not follow any fork: Debian will continue
to include upstream AUCTeX, at least for what depends on me and with the
current situation.

-- 
Thanks, Davide