From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <20140103.200846.1574807089640559527.cokesboy@gmail.com> <87a9f8g22x.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <76f5b9cd-3452-4189-b3a0-30dc55a3ee55@default> <87wqic65kj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874n5gfvjv.fsf@mac.com> <93a2d060-c7f8-4ce3-9bff-f7397be690ff@default> <874n5fhn1j.fsf@schjetne.se> <87wqibu8px.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389201574 31172 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 17:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Grim Schjetne , Stephen Berman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 18:19:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wn5-00062l-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:19:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wn4-0003N0-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wme-0002qx-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wmc-0005zd-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wmc-0005zY-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0wmb-0005Ak-SF; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:09 -0500 X-Spook: North Korea freedom Skipjack Glock analyzer 9705 Samford X-Ran: uKRu4*{A4v:"}z8z#bS(flaE71m;#`qH$Hc@a.;9n#\ITxf:LB2Zn8:[{ez9:tTjp1nwSg X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:02:36 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167754 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Is it even "legal" to distribute any elisp code that is not at least >> compatible with the GPL? > > I think it is indeed "not legal", but I don't think this has been tested > in court, nor have I even heard any rumor of a lawyer expressing an > opinion on the issue. rms has said at least twice (IIRC) that he was asking a lawyer this question, but I never seen an answer. Eg: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg01368.html (I think there was a more recent repeat than that, but I can't find it now.)