From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> <87zic9zuof.fsf@bernoul.li> <877ezaajme.fsf@bernoul.li> <87shhw2xuv.fsf@bernoul.li> <87379gbyjp.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501355188 10898 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 19:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 21:06:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX4A-0002Yw-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:06:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX4G-0006HL-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX49-0006GR-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX47-0002fI-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX43-0002Yt-28; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX42-0000hB-Lr; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <87379gbyjp.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:17:46 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217139 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Some packages have licenses that are incompatible with Emacs. > | GPL-2 | 40 | 1 | > | CC-BY-3.0 | 2 | 0 | > | EPL | 1 | 0 | > | EPL-1.0 | 1 | 0 | These should not be included in Emacs package archives. There are also licenses that threaten to become incompatible. If we ever make a GPL version 4, we will release Emacs under GPL version 4 or later. At that point, these packages > | AGPL-3 | 1 | 0 | > | GPL-3 | 98 | 3 | will become incompatible with the license of Emacs. We should take action now to ask their authors to change from *GPL-3 to *GPL-3+, so that they will not be a problem in the future. People, Jonas has done a great service by asking other authors of the (none) packages. But now there are around 143 more packages to handle. Let's not expect Jonas to do all the work by himself. Can other people please volunteer now to share the work? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.