From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, eliz@gnu.org,
fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr,
msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Msys2-users] About DLLs needed by Emacs (W64)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:17:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ine097w9.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1eHs51-0006JC-9T@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:02:15 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > The new "with-deps" build and installer of Emacs actually packages quite
> > a bit of msys2/mingw64 including, for example, a python
> > installation.
>
> Does this new packaging include any GPL-covered binaries that are not
> from Emacs itself? Would someone please check this carefully?
Almost certainly yes.
> If it does, the GPL (whichever version) requires distributing that source code
> as well.
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-26.0.90-deps-mingw-w64-src.zip.sig
Which is the source for the dependency packages from msys.
This was the reason I distributed Emacs and its dependencies separately
for Emacs-25. I didn't work out how to get the source for the
dependencies till after the Emacs-25 cycle had started, so could not
distribute the dependencies in the first instance.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-23 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 12:53 About DLLs needed by Emacs (W64) Angelo Graziosi
[not found] ` <1639589366.4676.1511182396362-HsGP3tMACQiIsOV+laUMjw@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 13:55 ` David Macek
[not found] ` <4d86f0fd-d162-1287-861d-4527b8c0fd78-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 14:46 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-20 15:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <8760a5t2iv.fsf-39ZsbGIQGT7e5aOfsHch1g@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 15:13 ` Fabrice Popineau
[not found] ` <CAFgFV9OgzHsAWqi5ma9KWmHX63McYQc1OYrr+xE5kMKs5AOe1A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83a7zgeu21.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 19:59 ` Fabrice Popineau
[not found] ` <CAFgFV9O=UaWgVxOG0U=131vr9LrhwpsATmA369HMubTvao8r_A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 23:06 ` [Msys2-users] " Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <877euh52xe.fsf-WS8JpuUeUJXe9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-23 7:15 ` Fabrice Popineau
[not found] ` <CAFgFV9Njr1ZwTU4YBEezuMtz9cjsf1fBpin3=X0xCs1PeGBW7g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-23 7:24 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-23 18:09 ` [Msys2-users] " Phillip Lord
2017-11-23 18:08 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-23 14:02 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1eHs51-0006JC-9T-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-23 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <834lplari3.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-24 17:51 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-23 18:17 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2017-11-20 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83fu99dk21.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-20 22:12 ` Angelo Graziosi via Msys2-users
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