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Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [syl20bnr/spacemacs] Proposal to improve GPL compliance (#14444)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 23:02:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YD/rOojs+4p5oMY9@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/14444/789995307@github.com>

* Tommi Komulainen <notifications@github.com> [2021-03-03 22:26]:
> > Or does @gnusupport think that merely using GNU Emacs to run Spacemacs makes Spacemacs into an Emacs distribution? **Edit:** On further reading https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins, maybe they do. It is very confusing.

Yes, it is new work based on mainstream Emacs. It depends on Emacs and
modifies Emacs in such a way to provide new work.

That is fine and I encourage it and I like it.

Please see the GPL3 where it says:

  To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an
exact copy.  The resulting work is called a "modified version" of the
earlier work or a work "based on" the earlier work.

Spacemacs is based on the earlier work (Emacs). It combines various
parts and various software into one whole.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-03 20:02 UTC|newest]

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2021-03-01 18:54   ` [syl20bnr/spacemacs] Proposal to improve GPL compliance (#14444) github.com
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