Re: Emacs CLA requirement

[Philip Kaludercic]

Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> But isn't the issue, that previous releases have still been released
>> under the old GPL version? Apple continues distributing GPLv2 software
>> even though the newer versions have had their versions updated.
>
> That's true, but I don't understand how it would be any better if the
> FSF cannot relicense Emacs at all (which is likely to be the case if
> Emacs drops the CLA requirement)

You're right, it wouldn't be better but I don't see how it would be
worse either. My point was that this is just not a particularly
convincing argument.

-- 
        Philip K.