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 09:32:03 +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="20891"; 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 07:34:21 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 1lHL5R-0005M2-Gw for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 07:34:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60852 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHL5Q-0003ph-Ga for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:34:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHL51-0003np-Pd for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:51415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHL4z-0006Ea-J7 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:33:54 -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 000000000001E083.00000000603F2DCE.00006B2C; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:33:50 -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:607 Archived-At: * dpsutton [2021-03-01 22:36]: > I have my own init for emacs publicly available. It, as well as this > repo, does not contain any emacs code. Is it the position of GNU > that emacs inits cannot hide or modify the splash screen? I do not know what is position of GNU, as I do not represent GNU project. However, GNU project got notice on the mailing list about licensing of Spacemacs and that is why I have brought the message from the Emacs Tangents to the Github issue. Classification of software is separate from the copyright. If the init.el is distributed and modifies Emacs, it creates new combined work and thus should be properly licensed. That somebody calls it "init" is not relevant to copyrights. Programmers and users may call and classify software as they wish.