From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Nic <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:24:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F27D535.9070702@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7a0i0yz.fsf@lexx.delysid.org>
Mario Lang wrote:
> I do not fully understand this. If the use of
> non-free code in Emacs is explicitly forbidden, what is the problem then?
> If someone would use a dynamic loader extention to integrate
> commercial code with Emacs, he would just violate the license.
Allowing dynamic linking makes it easier for the end-user to violate
the license, perhaps unwittingly, while the distributer of the linked
module might technically escape from any wrongdoing since they are not
doing the linking.
But I think the specific change that the objections were raised about
was a general dynamic linking mechanism that would allow Emacs to link
to any library. There is another type of dynamic linking, where
linked modules would need to conform to an Emacs-specific interface.
Then only Emacs-specific modules could be linked to Emacs. It would then
be much easier to tell developers of non-Free modules that linked to
Emacs to make their code Free, since they could not claim that their
module was exempt from the GPL because it was designed to link with 'Y',
not with Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 12:16 A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Mario Lang
2003-07-30 12:42 ` Nic
2003-07-30 13:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 13:43 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 14:24 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 15:25 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-01 15:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-04 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 19:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-08-17 21:30 ` Leo
2007-08-19 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 1:33 ` Leo
2007-08-19 3:22 ` dhruva
2007-08-19 7:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-19 12:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-19 13:06 ` David Hansen
2007-08-19 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-31 4:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 7:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-07-31 9:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 18:57 ` Alex Schroeder
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