From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to distribute dynamic modules by themselves?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 01:07:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nWWjo-0005h3-Sv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <951567BE-B2FA-4224-A369-B96469D2E083@gmail.com> (message from Yuan Fu on Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:51:30 -0700)
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> I wrote a dynamic module that exposes a simple interface for
> Xapian, the indexing and searching engine. It could be very useful
> for indexing thousands of files and search in them. I use this
> module for my note-searching package.
This could be a useful thing, but before we decide to install it, we
need to check some crucial nontechnical issues.
* The moral issues.
Does Xapian include any nonfree software?
Does it depend on the presence of any nonfree software?
Does Xapian use some web service?
* The legal issues.
Assuming Xapian does everything with free software,
is all that software under GPL-compatible licenses?
If not, we need to look at how the non-GPL-compatible
software connects with the GPL-covered body of
Emacs and its add-ons. Depending on that, it might be ok.
See https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html to check
whether a license is free, and whether it is GPL-compatible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-22 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-20 23:51 How to distribute dynamic modules by themselves? Yuan Fu
2022-03-21 1:31 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-22 5:07 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-03-22 8:44 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-03-23 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 19:44 ` Yuan Fu
2022-03-25 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 19:48 ` Yuan Fu
2022-03-25 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-25 5:53 ` Yuan Fu
2022-03-27 5:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-27 5:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-23 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-23 22:30 ` Ergus
2022-03-24 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
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