From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Emacs-Lua: question about the license of one file Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:24:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1e0q4xq.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25814"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: Eduardo Ochs , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 08:24:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUWu-0006Vz-9z for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:24:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32884 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUWt-0002nm-9z for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUWX-0002li-7r for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUWW-0005gE-T2; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4452 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNUWQ-0007Sc-LC; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:23:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Eduardo Ochs on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 01:09:04 -0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:725 Archived-At: > From: Eduardo Ochs > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 01:09:04 -0300 > > I am working on a package that contains a module written in C++ that > loads a Lua interpreter, and that implements a REPL that lets us run > that interpreter interactively from Emacs. It is here: > > https://github.com/edrx/emacs-lua > > At this moment my package is just a poorly-documented prototype, but I > would like to submit it to ELPA when it grows up. > > QUESTION. The code in the module in C++ was written by a guy who sent > it to the Lua mailing list. His message is here: > > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2021-03/msg00084.html > > Here is my version of his code: > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edrx/emacs-lua/main/emlua.cpp > http://angg.twu.net/emacs-lua/emlua.cpp.html > http://angg.twu.net/emacs-lua/emlua.cpp > > When my REPL became functional I sent him an e-mail saying that I > would like to prepare the package to submit it to ELPA in the future, > and asked him what he thought about doing the paperwork thing... and I > told him that if he preferred a paperworkless way that _I guessed_ > that he could just send an e-mail to the Lua mailing list declaring > his code to be in the public domain, but I would have to check that > possibility with people who are more knowledgeable than me - and he > said something equivalent to "wow, yes, great, please check!"... > > So: can we do that? And are there any other licenses that you would > recommend besides public domain? I think using a PD code may also need some paperwork, some kind of disclaimer? Richard, what are the rules in these cases?