From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:45:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wue0i51a.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <871xw8i3tr.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187484192 18852 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 00:43:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 02:43:10 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 1IMYso-000122-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYsq-0003XZ-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYrg-0002nm-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYrf-0002nR-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYrf-0002nM-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMYrd-0008BO-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMYvO-0005J3-5j; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:45:50 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Leo on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:30:18 +0100) 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:76732 Archived-At: > The GPL requires all code linked to emacs to also be Free. If > dynamic linking was allowed that couldn't be gauranteed. Has this situation changed after adapting GPL3? We have tried to make it more explicit that the GPL applies to code designed to be dynamically linked into Emacs. However, the question is whether any free software license can make that requirement. That is a question of copyright law. > The reason guile can do it is that guile is licenced under the > GPL+exception which allows for linking to non-commercial code. I think that meanmt to say "non-GPL code". or "proprietary code". (Let's not confuse commercial with proprietary! See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.)