Subject: Re: bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 19:30:48 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> schrieb am So., 7. Mai 2017 um 21:19 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:45:07 +0000
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> >  What do you mean by "use"? Treat it as an optional library, like we
> >  do with image support and GnuTLS? I thought you wanted this feature
> >  to be present in every Emacs, not only Emacs linked against that
> >  library.
> >
> > I just want to link it statically by adding the required source files to
> the source tree, like we do for e.g.
> > oldXmenu.
>
> That means we need legal papers, AFAIU.
>

That's quite unfortunate, because it will prevent many useful libraries
from being added to Emacs.
How did we end up with oldXmenu? It's also MIT-licensed and not
FSF-copyrighted.