From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:19:19 -0600 Message-ID: <87aayagv54.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87d4399auk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87hbsl7wr0.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259184359 1508 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 21:25:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 22:25:51 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 1NDPMz-0005TP-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDPMz-0005H3-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDPGr-0006Bd-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDPGn-00065X-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57777 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDPGm-000658-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:34015) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDPGk-0000wk-5a; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:19:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47453 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NDPGi-0005iZ-LW; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:19:20 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:117770 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > That's true. Nonetheless, allowing GPLv2 and not GPLv3 is a very bad > example. We should not set a bad licensing example. > > In addition, I wonder about the other pages in that wiki have a > similar license. Are there programs in the wiki which are licensed > this way, allowing GPLv2 and not GPLv3? > > That would be a bad problem. Can someone tell me if there are any? > > Can someone please send me the email address of the people who run > that site? Les Harris already sent that name and email address. Here it is again: Alex Schroeder More information about him can be found at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AlexSchroeder. -Karl