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 10:17:18 +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="11636"; 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 08:19:49 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 1lHLnR-0002wB-EG for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:19:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHLnQ-0007KI-Fn for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:19:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHLmg-0006nU-T3 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:54495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHLmX-0003x6-TN for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:19:01 -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 000000000001E083.00000000603F385A.00006F4C; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:18:50 -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:612 Archived-At: * Lucius Hu [2021-03-02 18:10]: > Why would the user don't know? > Or is there any description of Spacemacs says it's not a configuration but a modified version of Emacs? Descriptions are in terms of copyright not really relevant. Classification like naming such as "configuration" is also not relevant. Question is if it represents combined work and thus modified version of Emacs as visually and practically it represents modified version of Emacs. It is not relevant that code was added to it, and that some sources were not "changed" directly. The modification of software is taking place in adding that new code. IMHO it represents combined work, new modified work thus the section "5. Conveying Modified Source Versions." applies: 1. TODO Full license text file is missing in the distribution. 2. TODO Source files do not have proper license notices. "GPLv3" is not enough. This is not even related to the section 5 but to general application of GNU GPLv3 license, and Spacemacs authors with to license it as GPLv3 but just need to place proper notices in each source files. 3. TODO Somewhere in the interactive interface you could add short copyright notice, something like "Copying Conditions" in accordance with the section 5.