From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonas Bernoulli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:47:36 +0100 Message-ID: <201bac3a0911260747jdfdac4drdc2239c1dbf9f4c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <87d4399auk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87hbsl7wr0.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259253783 21973 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 16:43:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:43:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 17:42:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDhQj-0001vB-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhQj-0005ej-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDgZe-00042C-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDgZZ-0003x4-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55522 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDgZZ-0003wr-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com ([209.85.211.172]:53485) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDgZZ-00018r-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: by ywh2 with SMTP id 2so756852ywh.27 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8e7YCB3IZFCouJj8qJCbTQCmyyDrLORwcgX29RMVJG0=; b=xy3QUtJo/3/4mUCkEdlxCynCRdbAJ4+JMuZjgVVzqX4xbgw42pcDuOZOBXqVZEs+e3 yQXTUGhO5dmW9kEX7h6N4lmiYB8H+11s6XGMtVP7xiHn1aKVE8S52b9kPD3k1DH/HRfq 8qenQ/UYY2hLpjTdFPyj/V6pf57w6L8JQCNDE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jmQrBrx/Q8fjMtBSp7HhTQ4OYDocY38+jJ8zPoyfGnBwEcxmVTIMeP1JU71GkGYKPf OlJml+maEHwA8XMgcVnl7bKfK22bWBX4xQjDW0RDwFBGMNv+deKgcB61BLC7v/3qtoPL 6H3k7W1wWbyu390F38FT1pY9JqWrSjrWAyaTU= Original-Received: by 10.151.1.32 with SMTP id d32mr87976ybi.333.1259250476052; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8df539588bbbafb8 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117818 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:23, Richard Stallman wrote: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0There might be some, but if they rely on Emacs-23 features, = such a license > =C2=A0 =C2=A0would be illegal, AFAIK. > > That would indeed be a bad problem. =C2=A0And if they don't use Emacs-23 = features > and the result is that they are licensed incompatibly with it, that would > also be a bad problem. > > I will write to Schroeder presently. >From http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispArea#toc9: > Conventions > > The wiki is for free software only. Please make sure your files contain a= n appropriate blurb that says so. Code snippets are covered by the license = in the footer of every page. > > Please describe the EmacsLisp libraries you add to the Wiki. CreateNewPag= es to do that, or add the descriptions to existing pages. The most important part to notice is that only documentation is licensed under the GPL2+ while libraries are licensed under whatever free license is specified in the library itself.