From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags licence? Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:25:59 -0400 Message-ID: <87r6lq9bm0.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> References: <18128.42217.337257.871910@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188167181 10656 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 22:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti , emacs@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 00:26:18 2007 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 1IPQYj-0002K2-3R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:26:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQYi-0001m9-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQYd-0001kP-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQYb-0001hr-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQYa-0001hk-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.83]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPQYW-0002sr-3c; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (c-67-163-202-228.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [67.163.202.228]) (user=jmaitins mech=GSSAPI (0 bits)) by smtp.andrew.cmu.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l7QMPtSC016880 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:25:56 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.60 on 128.2.10.83 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:77226 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > I just discovered that the etags.c included with Emacs 22 is now > dual-licenced BSD/GPL, while up to Emacs 21.4 it was GPL only. > As a consequence, this would mean that Gentoo has to mark its Emacs > packages with "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" as licence info. Presumably Gentoo, or any other distribution, does not "have" to do this, but rather is doing it as a courtesy to its users: I assume the string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" means that all of the contents of the package are available under at least one of those licenses. If that is the case, though, then the string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2" would also be correct, and more significantly, I doubt any users actually care that portions of the emacs package are also licensed under BSD. [snip] -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard