Re: New maintainer

[Richard Stallman]

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  > So I will withdraw my withdrawal, and say that if the opinions of the FSF, 
and
  > the maintenance of Emacs by someone like myself, can co-exist without
  > involving ethical compromise by either one of us, I'm happy for us to work
  > together.

I am very glad.  However, another message reminded me that the
maintainer's responsibility includes some other practical tasks that
relate to the GNU Project's philosophy, that I forgot about when
writing my previous message.  I had better correct that omission now.

They include (1) making sure we have copyright papers from substantial
contributors, (2) keeping track of authorship of contributions, and
(3) on rare occasions implementing or maintaining code to support
either the GPL requirements (as in the case of dynamic linking) or
informing people about the philosophy (such as the command C-h g)

I can't be absolutely sure I haven't omitted anything else.  If there
are any other such tasks, they would in any case be practical tasks,
like those above.

I am making everything clear and explicit, modulo the imperfections
of my memory.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
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