From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sqlite3 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:11:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tufmjyai.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtlem9m3.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30073"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jemarch@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 13:12:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1muCrF-0007cF-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:12:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muCrE-0006nQ-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muCqN-0005mD-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48264 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muCqM-0002VG-5O; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:11:42 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=lWHuh8xbmL/Kt6bz10YkYwQ+DhuWT9JeDbY+mkeabGE=; b=a45Bva6J9xTx sdruRmCasDxZHFz+yAxN2EqK4rWFfZu7gsY32b4I/OyF1MqQzZXicAAom/MqZ8TCZs4XoQFdUSo5T X5FTjBPtc4i3RblBePqTCw31SFOcEtkBa5PafI9VJtGcW9IPoGMip5u+6cHT3OsLQlv0Ha58LLLAo ZyiCAz2/20iZ8xebaL2xVk7sAkzbhxqWoJCBlVUNzoZL7rV8FmXpxxfc/JDQO07aEeOZAO92pxMt/ 5yRqIm3K/SdHj0jc+Lzr4SfnKaTtXkKsrK8ECDZbAidzd/xO0tBjt1cA8Ue62C0VySVIggUhxxXD2 VN71jvZwZupHFdgut/smUQ==; Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muCqE-00030Z-T8; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:11:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mtlem9m3.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:16:20 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:281084 Archived-At: > The sqlite non-license (it says public domain) status might be > problematic, since to get a proper license would require the FSF to > buy one explicitly. Richard or someone would have to check how that > would work out. Fedora is in the process of moving from *db to sqlite3 for the RPM package format (or changed recently: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Sqlite_Rpmdb), for instance, so I don't think there's any license problems here. The sqlite lack of license is not the sole issue, there is a requirement on copyright assignments / disclaimers, all those things need to be examined first. Fedora and GNU also have different goals, different guidelines and different policies. If adding something that would be such a significant dependency that it would be part of GNU Emacs one needs to take into consideration based on GNU policies, and not on Fedoras.