From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: github.com@gnu.support Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [syl20bnr/spacemacs] Proposal to improve GPL compliance (#14444) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 23:02:02 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: "syl20bnr/spacemacs" Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 21:04:08 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 1lHXj5-0004Ph-W0 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:04:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46172 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHXj4-0007bT-Tg for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHXiu-0007bI-Uw for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHXis-0005Vi-Oj for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.141.203]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E083.00000000603FEBA7.0000263A; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:03:51 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=github.com@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:616 Archived-At: * Tommi Komulainen [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.