From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoulli.cc>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:47:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201bac3a0911260747jdfdac4drdc2239c1dbf9f4c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NDXkx-0007Sr-3i@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:23, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> There might be some, but if they rely on Emacs-23 features, such a license
> would be illegal, AFAIK.
>
> That would indeed be a bad problem. And if they don't use Emacs-23 features
> and the result is that they are licensed incompatibly with it, that would
> also be a bad problem.
>
> I will write to Schroeder presently.
From http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispArea#toc9:
> Conventions
>
> The wiki is for free software only. Please make sure your files contain an appropriate blurb that says so. Code snippets are covered by the license in the footer of every page.
>
> Please describe the EmacsLisp libraries you add to the Wiki. CreateNewPages to do that, or add the descriptions to existing pages.
The most important part to notice is that only documentation is
licensed under the GPL2+ while libraries are licensed under whatever
free license is specified in the library itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 2:29 Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 3:30 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-23 20:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 21:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 22:57 ` Jay Belanger
2009-11-24 23:06 ` Les Harris
2009-11-25 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 21:32 ` Jay Belanger
2009-11-25 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:19 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-26 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-26 6:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 15:47 ` Jonas Bernoulli [this message]
2009-11-26 8:52 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-26 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 17:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 0:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-26 0:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 18:44 ` Giorgos Keramidas
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