From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Yuuki Harano <masm+emacs@masm11.me>,
luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gsettings.m4 copyright
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:03:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsfu4x15c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a6gcdha6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:29:21 +0200")
>> > Jeff and Yuuki, would you please tell us how you got this file and who
>> > has the copyright to its code?
>> I copied /usr/share/aclocal/gsettings.m4 in my PC.
> That file is installed when you install Glib, so you basically copied
> it from Glib without their permission.
Since it's under the LGPL we do have their permission.
> At this point, I think we should consider removing the file and
> rewriting the tests it performs in configure.ac, in as different a
> form from gsettings.m4 as possible. Is that feasible?
Is there a specific problem with the file being LGPL?
IIUC the LGPLv2.1 is compatible with GPLv3 (not sure about GPL>3), so
I don't think we have a license problem right now. Is the problem
limited to "we don't own its copyright" (i.e. something which we impose
on ourselves and could thus choose to ignore)?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-03 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87r19pgl3x.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-01-03 10:38 ` gsettings.m4 copyright Po Lu
2022-01-03 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 12:56 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 13:28 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 13:39 ` Yuuki Harano
2022-01-03 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 15:59 ` Yuuki Harano
2022-01-04 8:35 ` Yuuki Harano
2022-01-04 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-01-03 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-04 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-04 3:48 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-05 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
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