From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:20:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wue0i51a.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <871xw8i3tr.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059704805 31798 80.91.224.249 (1 Aug 2003 02:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 02:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mlang@delysid.org, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 04:26:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19iPcr-0008GW-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 04:26:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19iPfa-0008Kj-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 04:29:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19iPcH-0002BC-Vm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19iPbM-0001z7-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19iPXE-0007Tu-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19iPX7-00072e-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19iPWv-00043H-Mb; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:20:29 -0400 Original-To: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) In-reply-to: (prj@po.cwru.edu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15764 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.