From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: mlang@delysid.org, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:20:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19iPWv-00043H-Mb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ispk8294.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu)
That doesn't make sense. Emacs could use the same exception in its
license that Guile uses. The fact that the exception is used for
Guile shows that the FSF does not object to the exception in
principle. There may be a specific reason it's not desirable for
Emacs, but then what is it?
That sort of exception is similar to use of the LGPL. In most cases
it is a step backwards. Only in special cases is it indirectly
beneficial. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
for an explanation of this issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-01 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 12:16 A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Mario Lang
2003-07-30 12:42 ` Nic
2003-07-30 13:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 13:43 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 14:24 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 15:25 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-08-01 15:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-04 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 19:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-08-17 21:30 ` Leo
2007-08-19 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 1:33 ` Leo
2007-08-19 3:22 ` dhruva
2007-08-19 7:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-19 12:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-19 13:06 ` David Hansen
2007-08-19 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-31 4:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 7:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-07-31 9:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 18:57 ` Alex Schroeder
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