From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Fernandez Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnuplot Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System, Est. 1987 Message-ID: References: <87iof9f6qk.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423684519 8857 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2015 19:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:55:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 11 20:55:19 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 1YLdNW-000822-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLdNW-0003jQ-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:55:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!odin.sdf-eu.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: faeroes.sdf.org Original-X-Trace: odin.sdf-eu.org 1423683643 1219 192.94.73.9 (11 Feb 2015 19:40:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@odin.sdf-eu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:40:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (amd64)) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210376 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:102653 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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: