From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:02:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50911251402u7369f2bre4723d60c1100f43@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtywib8at.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> In addition, I wonder about the other pages in that wiki have a
>> similar license. Are there programs in the wiki which are licensed
>> this way, allowing GPLv2 and not GPLv3?
>
>> That would be a bad problem. Can someone tell me if there are any?
>
> There might be some, but if they rely on Emacs-23 features, such a license
> would be illegal, AFAIK.
Alex is not subscribed here. Here is the answer I got from Alex when I
asked him to comment:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Alex Schroeder <kensanata@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't follow it. I think the people involved did not read the entire
> blurb:
>
> This work is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General Public
> License. Alternatively, you may choose to receive this work under any other
> license that grants the right to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute the
> work, as long as that license imposes the restriction that derivative works
> have to grant the same rights and impose the same restriction. For example,
> you may choose to receive this work under the GNU Free Documentation
> License, theCreativeCommons ShareAlike License, the XEmacs manual license,
> or similar licenses.
>
> --
> Sent from a mobile phone. Sorry for being terse.
>
> On 25.11.2009, at 19:58, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Are you following this thread?
>
> Best wishes,
> L
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
> To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:27 -0600, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
>
> allows GPL version 2, but not the current version.
>
> This is not a good thing. Would the author(s) please change it to
>
> allow future versions of the GNU GPL as well? The documentation we
>
> recommend to Emacs developers has to set a good example for licensing
>
> as well as have useful information.
>
> I wrote most of that page, and would be happy to change "2" to "3" in
>
> the blurb, but don't see how to do so. It appears to be an
>
> administrative function of the EmacsWiki site, and I'm not sure how to
>
> change it, nor whether it can be changed on a per-page basis.
>
> EmacsWiki uses the Oddmuse engine; a Wiki engine written in Perl.
>
> Indeed, as you have guessed, the license text is a configuration setting
> in the Perl backend of the Wiki (a configurable footer for all pages).
> It is common for all the pages of the Wiki, so you would have to contact
> Alex Schroeder to install a change and it would affect all the pages of
> the Wiki.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 2:29 Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 3:30 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-23 20:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 21:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 22:57 ` Jay Belanger
2009-11-24 23:06 ` Les Harris
2009-11-25 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 21:32 ` Jay Belanger
2009-11-25 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:19 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-26 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-11-26 6:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 15:47 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2009-11-26 8:52 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-26 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 17:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 0:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-26 0:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 18:44 ` Giorgos Keramidas
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