From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Dynamic loading (was: Release plans) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873al79akr.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> <48A740CB.4050404@emf.net> <20080816213508.GA8530@muc.de> <87hc9ka8eg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080817073124.GA1294@muc.de> <87ljyv5gy5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080818101802.GA2615@muc.de> <87bpzqqk7b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219090874 9577 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2008 20:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:21:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 22:22:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVBEo-000667-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVBDr-0005zG-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVBDl-0005yM-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVBDi-0005vc-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39430 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVBDi-0005vI-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:45690) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVBDi-0003RV-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-58.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.58]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m7IKKpEY017553; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 463D0B40C9; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87bpzqqk7b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:58:16 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3084=0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102608 Archived-At: [ Please people, use descriptive subjects. ] One thing that's not clear to me is: assuming we add some XEmacs-style dynamic loader to Emacs (probably with some kind of dynamic GPL-check for good measure), would it be legal for someone to distribute a non-GPL module? IIUC, this is a question related to the distribution of non-GPL Elisp packages (which I thought was illegal but recently Richard mentioned he wasn't sure and he was waiting for legal advice about it), and maybe also to the precedent of the GMP-2.0 library. Can anyone enlighten me? Stefan