Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

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> The situation with Emacs will be the same as it is with GCC now:
> plug-ins have to be GPL.
>   


This illuminates the central question at hand:  if an Emacs plugin is 
GPL, and provides access to internals of GCC, which is also GPL, can 
nonfree software use that Emacs plugin?

I think that the answer to this question is "no", and that this provides 
a means to export GCC's AST to Emacs without opening the AST to nonfree 
software.