From: Javier Fernandez <jafernan@faeroes.freeshell.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnuplot
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:40:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mbgb7q$163$1@odin.sdf-eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19720.1423674192.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> But you _can_ distribute the source modifications as patches to
> released sources, so what's the difference?
The problems are explained in this ubuntu bug mailing list post
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnuplot/+bug/195111/comments/9
Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote on 2008-11-17:
> You could fork it in theory but it would have to be forever
> distributed as a combination of the original source at the
> version you forked and an ever-growing set of patches.
> It does allow you to make changes and distribute them but in an
> awkward form.
> it IS GPL-incompatible (e.g. it may not be distributed in binary
> form with the GNU readline library linked to it), because of that
> additional restriction.
> That said, debian-legal do consider this to be DFSG-free but
> consider it to be a compromise. From the linked Debian bug:
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2015-02-11 3:48 ` gnuplot (was: Re: zsh outside of Emacs) Emanuel Berg
2015-02-11 16:11 ` gnuplot Javier Fernandez
2015-02-11 17:02 ` gnuplot Eli Zaretskii
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2015-02-12 23:31 ` gnuplot Emanuel Berg
2015-02-12 14:14 ` gnuplot Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-12 14:43 ` gnuplot Stefan Monnier
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2015-02-12 23:22 ` gnuplot Emanuel Berg
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2015-02-12 23:13 ` gnuplot Emanuel Berg
2015-02-12 2:36 ` gnuplot (was: Re: zsh outside of Emacs) Robert Thorpe
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