From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:31:45 +0900 Message-ID: <87y5cz81ri.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87a9pgayzy.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo9wyr74.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87y5d0m3l3.fsf@gmail.com> <515BE920.1000503@online.de> <87obdwvw6v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <515BF509.2040706@online.de> <87k3ok9bq7.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <87r4ir4r19.fsf@gmail.com> <83bo9vir0k.fsf@gnu.org> <87hajn4muw.fsf@gmail.com> <83zjxfh9ik.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9pf4m4j.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5czh8qs.fsf@gnu.org> <8762034la9.fsf@gmail.com> <83wqsjh7tl.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5cz35r2.fsf@gmail.com> <83txnnh770.fsf@gnu.org> <87txnn350a.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppybh61i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwtf33wr.fsf@gmail.com> <83obdvh5cm.fsf@gnu.org> <8738v7a2qm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1365030627.1819.1.camel@german-desktop> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365042730 13571 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 02:32:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Jambunathan K , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: german@xelalug.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 04 04:32:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNZya-0000A5-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:32:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35960 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNZyB-0005Ke-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNZy3-0005JR-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNZxx-0004kI-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:59908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNZxs-0004i1-FK; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CFF970208; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:31:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 463931A3DCA; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:31:45 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <1365030627.1819.1.camel@german-desktop> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158639 Archived-At: Germ=C3=A1n "A. Arias" writes: > If the Jambunathan's code is GPL, then I can copy, redistributed, > modify and add that code into other GPL projects, for example > Emacs. But that's precisely the point here. In the case of Emacs as a project, *you* cannot. The project *will* reject such code, for a reason extraneous to the GPL license. Namely, the owner of the copyright refuses to yield it to the FSF. If you mean that you can distribute a fork of Emacs containing that code without infringing either license, yes, that's true. Or a separate project such as XEmacs theoretically could do that, both legally and by project policy.