From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Packages, release notes, etc Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:31:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20150910103151.GA28160@tuxteam.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441881159 27254 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 10:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Welle Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 12:32:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz9Q-0001VD-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:32:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz9P-0000By-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz97-00009o-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz94-0003fl-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:45364 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz94-0003ca-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZz8x-0007N4-OP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:31:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107116 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Michael Welle wrote: > Hello, > > Tassilo Horn writes: [...] > > With respect to license, I think it is not even possible for an emacs > > package to have a license different than GPL version 3 or later. Each > > package is a combined work of emacs + X so the emacs license extends to > > the package. That's probably the reason why there's no special License > > field in the standard headers. > Hm, so it isn't possible to distribute a package that is in the public > domain or maybe one that is Artistic ver. 2.0 licensed via ELPA or one of > the other repositories? I doubt that. This looks strange to me too. Tassilo: are you sure you didn't mean "...to have a license incompatible than GPLV3 [or later]"? Of course, the "or later" is the hard part here. How do we know that Apache V2 is compatible with yet-to-know GPLV4? regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXxXBcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYQAwCfUA848q3U8f94cRkbTVmdLRUB T4gAn3tikeeglwYdNBvfsUjmwfhWkKAy =6pnd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----