On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 11:23:36PM +0000, Adam Sampson wrote: > The arguments occurred because RMS wants to keep GNU Emacs under FSF > copyright, and the maintainers of XEmacs (notably Jamie Zawinsky) didn't > want to hand copyright on their modifications over the FSF, so the changes > have never been merged back into GNU Emacs.
"Never reply to one's own message." Jamie Zawinski (yes, I can spell his name, honest) has a page up with some relevant messages from the GNU mailing lists---this is probably the place to go if you want to find out what the arguments were about: http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

