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: Updates to etc/MORE.STUFF Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:20:52 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16193.55206.392728.7784@bushmills.inf.ed.ac.uk> <87ptiww8xh.fsf@emacswiki.org> <200308240023.h7O0NKIX010608@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87u186om9z.fsf@emacswiki.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061825441 28973 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2003 15:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@inf.ed.ac.uk, monnier+gnu/emacs@cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 17:30:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19rJIl-0001QF-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19rJOL-0000jd-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:36:25 +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 19rJHl-0005tz-Gi for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19rJEu-0004G9-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19rJDN-0003Qe-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19rJCf-00030v-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19rJ9I-0003Uo-Cp; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:20:52 -0400 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-reply-to: <87u186om9z.fsf@emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:04:08 +0200) 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:16148 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16148 The would mean that you can only distribute GPL elisp programs? I don't think that is true. The GPL wouldn't apply to a program just for being written in Elisp. However, if it uses non-language features of Emacs, that's a different case. So I don't know whether that particular program violates the GPL. However, whether it violates the GPL or not, if it's non-free we should not be promoting it by telling people about it. How does this "linking" happen? Our position is that a program designed to call and be called by the features of Emacs is an addition to Emacs. What if the elisp runs in XEmacs? XEmacs is a modified version of Emacs, and is GPL-covered too, so I don't think its existence changes the issue. What if it runs via the common-lisp library Sam Steingold wrote? Sorry, I don't know anything about that library.