🚀 go-pugleaf

Some people at Digital were kind enough to write Emacs patches for the
Alpha, but Digital was not kind enough to sign the legal papers to let
us use these patches.

Under the circumstances, the availability of these patches on the net
actually created a potential problem, because they reduced the chances
that someone else would independently write suitable patches that we
could use.

Fortunately, someone did write patches and sign the appropriate legal
papers.  So this problem has been averted in this particular case.
I will install those patches for the next non-bug-fix release

But I am mentioning the issue anyway, because people need to
understand why maintaining a set of patches like those on gatekeeper
can in some cases make it harder to give Emacs precisely the feature
that you want.

You can find out whether this is the case by asking me.  The problem
exists only when I would like to install the patches, but someone else
isn't cooperating.  If I am not interested in installing the patches,
then it does no harm for those who care about the patches to maintain
them.