From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is BSD licence compatible to export with emacs modules? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:20:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20170727212013.GD28402@tuxteam.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501190459 19652 195.159.176.226 (27 Jul 2017 21:20:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:20:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 27 23:20:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daqDG-0004s2-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daqDM-0005D3-Px for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daqCq-0005Bm-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daqCl-0007RJ-Lt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:54802 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daqCl-0007Dq-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1daqCb-0007XW-97; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:20:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113896 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 05:26:51PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote: > Just a short question: if I wrap a bsd-licensed code into n emacs module, > is it compatible > with GPL license? Is it OK to export with > > int plugin_is_GPL_compatible; > > Does that symbol aim at my own written module code, or does it even include > > used 3rd party code (which in this case is licenced under the BSD licence)? Yes. BSD is GPL compatible [1]. ( assume it's the currently common "modified" or "three-clause" license [2] and not the original, four-clause license [4], which is pretty uncommon these days. The four-clause license has this non- advertising clause. Cheers [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list#GPLCompatibleLicenses [2] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:BSD_3Clause [3] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:BSD_4Clause - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAll6WQ0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYQNgCfdZLuqzrw7xvx7Tx5R3AkJmIF xzAAnApo+y4iBrBlZn1KHGcM4deuAiYX =WROV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----