Re: gsettings.m4 copyright

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Does this policy apply to importing Emacs Lisp libraries as well?

  > I assume that the answer is "no", but if so I think it would be useful
  > to briefly explain why that case should be viewed differently.

The answer is no.  Here's why the cases are different.

The C libraries I was talking about before are not specifically for
Emacs.  They may be used by many unrelated applications, Emacs being
just one.  We don't consider them _part_ of Emacs, we just distribute
them along with Emacs.

It;s different for Emacs Lisp packages.  If we want a Lisp library
enough to distribute it with Emacs, we want to make it part of Emacs.

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