Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>   > > If Emacs supports plug-ins, it should definitely handle this as
>   > > GCC does.
>
>   > If our only option to combine Emacs and GCC is to implement this in a
>   > manner where neither GCC nor Emacs can be considered a separate
>   > application any more, then we won't be combining Emacs and GCC.
>
> I agree with that statement -- but that seems like a leap from one
> topic to a totally unrelated one.

It's related in that Emacs is a general purpose application independent
from GCC.  Any way we find for combining Emacs with GCC will be usable
as a way for combining GCC with proprietary applications without the
proprietary applications falling under the GPL.

-- 
David Kastrup