From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Xrefactory violates Emacs license? Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:39 -0800 Message-ID: <87abneznaw.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <877iiiont9.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199904325 767 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2008 18:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 09 19:45:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCfvs-00068y-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:45:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCfvU-0001Sw-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCfuw-0000r6-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCfuv-0000q9-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCfuv-0000pv-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCfur-0006it-GP; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:44:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60905) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCfup-0008Hn-M0; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:44:39 -0600 In-Reply-To: <877iiiont9.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (Jeremy Maitin-Shepard's message of "Wed\, 09 Jan 2008 13\:29\:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86655 Archived-At: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard 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