From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA? Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y1jqtn8g.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87wmz89pem.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <875y6saz7x.fsf@web.de> <874jmc9dd4.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <871qhfbnx7.fsf@web.de> <87mt01yxp4.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <871qh7vzoy.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87r0p73svh.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27228"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 04:20:21 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qLwnc-0006nF-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2023 04:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qLwmx-0000Lf-Kr; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qLwmw-0000LE-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qLwmv-0002BC-Eb; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=/d5alpUla/B4VXPBS1TmftL5e6ypq3y9IL6VqFhJwtg=; b=QOBqA/WaG3ou 9VgkbrieU02FRmE+T1FBKvfGWpwHIBoG9iuYI6zo8EQr6mSb7Y9pZ3b14ii2VaPKooq0yykbJML72 xw5vqUJlyPWMgLhOIaKAiHoyf+RXKye2WaK7ez9rPp61Vp1YsjXDqRI0DgbmN0G/kFzi1TbWN2Ea6 UgUaRyY+YsyRDslkA2F4OTNQNAtJWDMUulJOp4yFKppSkbKyK/n++bs4o8nHzlFPNkwx9MpHd5jqd fJx/24kS0JgJ1cZpKjD1L25sz3aijcc5l9+NdPvJB5lEoFdsM5aiwu2Rv2wX4GKza+AqZneFIsk9L tIcn1wvPSnTBBkkDAFfURg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qLwmu-0003iG-Va; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r0p73svh.fsf@web.de> (arne_bab@web.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307961 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. ]]] > > That is what I was referring to. The Debian person who contacted me, > > asked me whether it would be possible to have a LICENSE file in the > > package. So I simply thought of using the content of the COPYING file > > and call it LICENSE. Is this a problem? > That’s not a problem, no. Depending on the details of what that means, it might be ok for making a program free independent of the GNU Project. But here we want something more specific: we want to make it part of Emacs. Since Emacs is FSF copyrighted, we want these files to handle the matter just like the other source files of Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)