Re: develop an emacs library

[Søren Pilgård]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Ivan Kanis <address@hidden> wrote:
> March, 16 at 20:02 Richard wrote:
>
>>     Why do you think a commercial company would use a elisp library?
>>
>> To make a nonfree extended version of Emacs, perhaps.
>
> Emacs users are a minority. At my company we are less than 5%. I think
> you are worrying for things that won't happen. Anyway it was just an
> idea that I don't have time to implement so you needn't worry.
>

I think the fear here is for situations like this:
Some small company sees how popular new editors like lighttable and
sublimetext is. Wanting to cash in on this easily they make a shiny
interface relying on this "emacs library" for doing the base work.

GPL ensures people don't just download the source code and do this,
but it is unclear whether providing this "emacs library" could open a
way to circumvent this.