From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 34849@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34849: Compilation issues with g++ on some files
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:45:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zsfmpzf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1h64QM-0000T6-Fn@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:24:18 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > I'm thinking about trying my hand at making a Qt [1] GUI for Emacs,
> > which is unfortunately written in C++.
>
> There are two problems with that.
>
> 1. I don't want C++ code in the Emacs distribution. This isn't the sort
> of crucial thing that would override that general policy.
For the record, the addition of C++ was about as minimally invasive as
the Objective C code is, but I understand your desire to keep C++ out.
> 2. Qt is licensed under GPL 3 only. If we ever need to make a GPL
> version 4, we would release the next Emacs version under GPL 4-or-later,
> so it could not be linked with Qt.
>
> You can make the changes you wish, but we should not include it in
> Emacs itself.
The licensing situation is unfortunate. Thank you for giving me notice
of this before spending much time on making it work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-19 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-13 21:12 bug#34849: Compilation issues with g++ on some files Alex
2019-03-17 5:22 ` Alex
2019-03-18 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-18 16:18 ` Alex
2019-03-19 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-19 2:37 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-19 4:45 ` Alex [this message]
2019-03-19 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 2:12 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-20 6:04 ` Alex
2019-03-20 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-20 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 2:09 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-20 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-20 10:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-03-21 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
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