* Xrefactory violates Emacs license?
@ 2008-01-09 18:29 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-01-09 21:44 ` Karl Fogel
2008-01-10 12:20 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard @ 2008-01-09 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms, emacs-devel
Hello,
I just became aware of this product:
http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/main.html
It seems to consist of some external process written in C that
communicates over a file descriptor with a user interface written in
Emacs Lisp. The Emacs Lisp user interface is not merely some additional
interface to an existing program; rather, it is the only interface to
the program, and the program was designed specifically for this Emacs
interface.
The product is sold under a proprietary license and the (non-elisp)
source code is not provided. I apologize if the FSF is already aware of
this product. If not, I figured I'd send a message to the list, since
it seems that this product may potentially constitute a license
violation.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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* Re: Xrefactory violates Emacs license?
2008-01-09 18:29 Xrefactory violates Emacs license? Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
@ 2008-01-09 21:44 ` Karl Fogel
2008-01-10 12:20 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Karl Fogel @ 2008-01-09 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard; +Cc: rms, emacs-devel
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy@jeremyms.com> writes:
> I just became aware of this product:
> http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/main.html
>
> It seems to consist of some external process written in C that
> communicates over a file descriptor with a user interface written in
> Emacs Lisp. The Emacs Lisp user interface is not merely some additional
> interface to an existing program; rather, it is the only interface to
> the program, and the program was designed specifically for this Emacs
> interface.
>
> The product is sold under a proprietary license and the (non-elisp)
> source code is not provided. I apologize if the FSF is already aware of
> this product. If not, I figured I'd send a message to the list, since
> it seems that this product may potentially constitute a license
> violation.
I think this page has the reporting information you need:
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violation.html
-Karl
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* Re: Xrefactory violates Emacs license?
2008-01-09 18:29 Xrefactory violates Emacs license? Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-01-09 21:44 ` Karl Fogel
@ 2008-01-10 12:20 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2008-01-10 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard; +Cc: emacs-devel
We will take a look at the situation.
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