From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Don't think Emacs package may be proprietary Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 16:09:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87a6om1022.fsf@zoho.eu> <871r9x25l8.fsf@zoho.eu> 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="14234"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, moasenwood@zoho.eu To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 15:13:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1lknvT-0003TK-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 15:13:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41372 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lknvS-00088x-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 09:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lknug-00088o-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 09:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:42267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lknue-00088U-2B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 09:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.35.51]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF16.0000000060AA54D8.00005916; Sun, 23 May 2021 06:12:56 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , moasenwood@zoho.eu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130130 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2021-05-23 15:49]: > For official Gnu Software that is true, but onu can also make a > package for emacs where the code is proprietary. Not when released to public in any way. Internally in one's house person may do what one wishes, internally in the company, company may do what they want with it. They cannot sell it, or in any way release to public as license does not allows it. Emacs package modifies Emacs and requires Emacs to run and thus creates modified version of Emacs and has to be GPL3+ compatible. Emacs package with Emacs editor make a combined program. Read here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/