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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Packages, release notes, etc
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:31:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150910103151.GA28160@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ni18ccxbua.ln2@news.c0t0d0s0.de>

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Michael Welle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> 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.  Each
> > package is a combined work of emacs + X so the emacs license extends to
> > the package.  That's probably the reason why there's no special License
> > field in the standard headers.
> Hm, so it isn't possible to distribute a package that is in the public
> domain or maybe one that is Artistic ver. 2.0 licensed via ELPA or one of
> the other repositories? I doubt that.

This looks strange to me too. Tassilo: are you sure you didn't mean
"...to have a license incompatible than GPLV3 [or later]"?

Of course, the "or later" is the hard part here. How do we know that
Apache V2 is compatible with yet-to-know GPLV4?

regards
- -- t
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <vto7ccx8r5.ln2@news.c0t0d0s0.de>
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
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 [this message]
2015-09-10 11:00       ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-10 11:38         ` tomas
2015-09-10 11:40 Alexis

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