From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packages, release notes, etc
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:09:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871te6nijg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4mj2kwia.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:36:45 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.
>
> Not exactly: the license can be different from GPLv3+, but it should
> be compatible with GPLv3+, indeed.
But what's the purpose of the copyleft when I can release a derived work
basing on GPL code under a GPL-compatible license which has no copyleft
anymore, e.g., Apache License, Version 2.0?
Bye,
Tassilo
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2015-09-10 9:22 ` Packages, release notes, etc Tassilo Horn
2015-09-10 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 20:09 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2015-09-10 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.878.1441927224.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-11 2:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-09-11 9:25 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-09-11 5:26 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.874.1441915758.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-11 0:16 ` Joost Kremers
2015-09-11 2:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.808.1441876951.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <ni18ccxbua.ln2@news.c0t0d0s0.de>
2015-09-10 10:31 ` tomas
2015-09-10 11:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-10 11:38 ` tomas
2015-09-10 11:40 Alexis
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