Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:56:49 -0800
> Cc: George McNinch <address@hidden>, Roland Winkler <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >>>>> Thomas Fitzsimmons <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I really like this idea. Then we could count on BBDB 3 (core) being in Emacs
> > core. We could fix EUDC to always enable the BBDB backend by default,
> > include an Info node in the manual for BBDB itself and fix the EUDC Info
> > nodes to be BBDB 3-specific.
> 
> I would much prefer this to be in "tarball ELPA", so that it is included in
> the distribution, but not a focus for the other developers. Would there be any
> need to include it within core itself?

Didn't BBDB have some copyright issues that precluded its distribution
with Emacs or under the same license?  (Apologies if I'm
misremembering.)