From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Elisp licensing Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:12:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mshwphv5.fsf@librehacker.com> <87h680cmy8.fsf@librehacker.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37733"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christopher Howard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 07:12:46 2024 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 1tEjNt-0009fM-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:12:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tEjNn-0006Fd-9g; Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tEjNm-0006FO-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:12:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tEjNl-0008Ha-Ns; Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:12:37 -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=MCuTiAdlxrD31G4Y+TRNaddOX79jaBfrtlKeuRW5CRg=; b=ASDC6gVbjoYw RP6pDy9MboNEUnL+526YEA+hEw2kyahQpUYyYlDrmRUP/gG74HMweFpHGLcwDY/Kt0IwK3dM/0W5l Bk031iEKz/gYvD0AjeC3fMjqf5QvBw7Vwno4WlNTFSeAlaL2Rml6tLJNUY1+tx0J5+8rd4gAd3MDm AcIyM1A4ow3DN68Zck7P709otvWj2tzwDVlRYTFPMowB3xJ89StU4ZQdrYxmOAVIbmkNLGzlxO4HQ wV8BmImfFEw3/mzHdu8N717DBq6ErYWETK4A1s1jHUBNdMZ519b61JHxeUoXofBIhgpyadAYXXsQy ZAjIdIT6F/PKwoKRvJjvfA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tEjNl-000755-3D; Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:12:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h680cmy8.fsf@librehacker.com> (message from Christopher Howard on Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:10:39 -0900) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:325605 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. ]]] > I was actually concerned about how to relate > to Elisp projects I've found that that are released under other > licenses, in particular non-copyleft free software licenses. the main question is whether those licenses are compatible with GPLv3. See https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for that information. If they are compatible with GPLv3, you can use that code in GNU Emacs with no difficulty. > So, Elisp programs "if they are meant for use in combination with GNU > Emacs" legally must be released under a GPLv3+ compatible license, but > not necessarily the GPLv3+ itself? Yes. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)