From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:50:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> <87zic9zuof.fsf@bernoul.li> <877ezaajme.fsf@bernoul.li> <87shhw2xuv.fsf@bernoul.li> <87379gbyjp.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ini5m1sy.fsf@ernst> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501789866 11953 195.159.176.226 (3 Aug 2017 19:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mats Lidell Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 21:51:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM92-0002cG-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:50:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM98-0003aS-Uo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM8X-0003a9-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM8W-0003w4-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM8G-0003aD-Sl; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ddM8G-0000Qu-5t; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:50:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ini5m1sy.fsf@ernst> (message from Mats Lidell on Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:35:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217270 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Richard Stallman writes: > > Some packages have licenses that are incompatible with Emacs. > > > > > | GPL-2 | 40 | 1 | > I got a questions from one of the authors whether just changing the license to > GPL-2+ would be enough to resolve the issue. Would it? Yes, it would. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.