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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Rachel Agasan <rachelagasan@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: E-LISP licensing question
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:03:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <her4f7sm1e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvli5gkteo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:52:43 -0400")

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I am also looking for further clarification on this.  I don't even know if,
>> for example, init.el must be GPLed if it (require '---) a GPLed library then
>> redefines settings in that library.*
>
> As long as you don't distribute your init.el, you don't have to worry
> about any of those problems.

You missed the "*":

   *Assuming you want to post your config publicly for reference.

Surely this question, which seems like a reasonable thing to ask, should
have an actual answer by now, 5 years on?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-09 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-02 15:35 E-LISP licensing question Geoffrey Teale
2008-04-02 17:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-18 23:49 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-19  3:47   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-19  3:50   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-19  5:22   ` Richard Stallman
2008-05-24 19:21     ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-25  2:47       ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01  3:21         ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09  1:31         ` Rachel Agasan
2013-07-09  8:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-09 17:03             ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-07-09 22:41               ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-09 16:33           ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-09 16:47             ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2013-07-09 23:55               ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-10  8:27                 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-07-10 22:57                   ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-09 17:06             ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 23:55               ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-10  8:32               ` Andreas Röhler

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