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From: Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: hniksic@srce.hr
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Porting XEmacs to Windows NT or 95.

: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> wrote:
: 
: Bill Dubuque (wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
: >   Is Win-Emacs free (it should be, since Emacs/XEmacs are distributed
: >   under the GPL)?  If it is, why aren't Win-Emacs and the current XEmacs
: >   merged?
: > 
: > Win-Emacs comes in two versions. A free version (with no support)
: > that is nagware, and a fully supported commercial version with no nag.
: > The two versions are identical except for the nag. Even with the nag,
: > the free version is widely used (I used it myself for over a year).
: 
: I am not sure I understand this correctly.  As far as I know, the GPL
: requires that the derived products must also be under GPL.  So
: Win-Emacs should be shipped with the source code (which does not seem
: to be the case), and be freely redistributable (I haven't checked this).

Win-Emacs does indeed come with full XEmacs source code, but not with
source code for the proprietary Pearl X emulator.

-Bill

