From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdgwsopg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50911260941t5795351dqaaa9f1a8830f145e@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:47 +0100")
>> This is a murky area, but the fact that the code can only run together
>> with GPLv3 code might imply that it is illegal to distribute it under
>> an incompatible license, even if it's distributed separately.
> Hm, then perhaps some code became illegal when GPLv3 was released and
> even more will be illegal when GPLv4 is released...
No: releasing a new version of the GPL makes no difference, and neither
does releasing a new version of Emacs. What makes a difference is when
a package is modified to make use of features that are only provided by
an Emacs that uses a new license (e.g. Emacs-23, released under the
GPLv3+, adds many new features which are not available in any GPLv2+
emacsen).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-27 2:12 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
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 [this message]
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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