From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zhu Zihao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to distribute dynamic modules by themselves? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287348 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes, Xapian is definitely licensed under GPLv2 or later. And many distributions following FSDG distribute Xapian. IMO, it's OK to write a module to empower Emacs with Xapian. Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I wrote a dynamic module that exposes a simple interface for > > Xapian, the indexing and searching engine. It could be very useful > > for indexing thousands of files and search in them. I use this > > module for my note-searching package. > > This could be a useful thing, but before we decide to install it, we > need to check some crucial nontechnical issues. > > * The moral issues. > Does Xapian include any nonfree software? > Does it depend on the presence of any nonfree software? > > Does Xapian use some web service? > > * The legal issues. > Assuming Xapian does everything with free software, > is all that software under GPL-compatible licenses? > If not, we need to look at how the non-GPL-compatible > software connects with the GPL-covered body of > Emacs and its add-ons. Depending on that, it might be ok. > > See https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html to check > whether a license is free, and whether it is GPL-compatible. =2D-=20 Retrieve my PGP public key: gpg --recv-keys D47A9C8B2AE3905B563D9135BE42B352A9F6821F Zihao --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIsEARYIADMWIQRefA5qkqvnKdl/GTlmOX+E92aT+QUCYjmNRhUcYWxsX2J1dF9s YXN0QDE2My5jb20ACgkQZjl/hPdmk/mLTAEAjTLTWE9OQwt8/bFq2HHDWccy5U8u /A+WVgSHUplfO1oA/3rYLxzbWVKGrRniEe/6wUaFJYwzONJA7/F3C80qob0D =khNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--