From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NaCl support for Emacs Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:49:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20120111.134910.720106799840715497.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <87ipkiakqq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8739bma0i9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326286172 32098 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 12:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:49:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 13:49:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkxcM-0002Kl-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:49:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkxcL-0005Z2-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkxcI-0005Yw-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkxcB-0005Gz-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.150]:35653) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkxcA-0005GW-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 21398 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2012 12:49:11 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.58) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 11 Jan 2012 12:49:11 -0000 In-Reply-To: <8739bma0i9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 24.0.91 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 129.241.15.150 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147581 Archived-At: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" (2012-01-11 12:26:22 UTC)] > Not if it really is. I'm just saying that Bernstein's licensing and > distribution practices for much of his software, if applied here, > would be problematic, and it deserves checking before doing too much > work on adding support for it to Emacs. That used to be true, several years ago. But in late 2007, he announced that he was changing that, and all his software – past and future – would be in the public domain [1]. (It may be that some old distributions of his still have the old license files, though.) [1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412&hl=en As far as I know the term "public domain", there is really only one kind, so you cannot attach license conditions to something in the public domain. That would be a contradiction in terms, like hair on a bald head. (In some jurisdictions, such as Norway, there are moral rights attached to a work that cannot be given away, such as the right to be identified as the author of the work. But that is another matter.) - Harald