Re: Testing new abbrev tables in elisp

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Stallman writes:

 >     In fact (Richard, would you please confirm?) it may be a good idea to
 >     use the Lisp implementation as a base to avoid legal issues if it
 >     looks "too much like" XEmacs code (the problem is that AFAIK you have
 >     looked at the XEmacs code, so couldn't swear that it's not an
 >     unintentional copy of someone else's code).
 > 
 > That is valid in general, but is it an issue here?  Our old C code was
 > written by me, mostly.

Well, of course any code in Emacs has all the necessary papers.

But as I understand it, Andreas wants to code in C so he can borrow
techniques he saw in the XEmacs code.  It's fairly likely that code
varies significantly from your code.