From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy@jeremyms.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xrefactory violates Emacs license?
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abneznaw.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iiiont9.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (Jeremy Maitin-Shepard's message of "Wed\, 09 Jan 2008 13\:29\:06 -0500")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 18:29 Xrefactory violates Emacs license? Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-01-09 21:44 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2008-01-10 12:20 ` Richard Stallman
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