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Why would you think anything of the sort? Is everything written in Emacs GPL? Is everything written in Eclipse under the Eclipse license?

Like (almost?) all FLOSS dev tools, there's no connection between how the code is written and the ensuing license. Suggesting such (even by way of a comment) is rather unfair.



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