From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87d4399auk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87hbsl7wr0.fsf@vh213601.truman.edu> <878wdtvfba.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259259363 6871 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 18:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 19:15:53 2009 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 1NDisj-0000zL-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:15:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDisi-0000mc-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDiM9-00089z-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:42:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDiM5-00084Y-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:42:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36460 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDiM5-00084B-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:42:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com ([209.85.211.172]:44146) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDiM3-0007Ap-Sm; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: by ywh2 with SMTP id 2so842601ywh.27 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:42:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=hCMqLAmmmQ+oYWaYnCOcNwapmImrcDiflYI1trMDmic=; b=BYagKCvW3T7G6TcYmgnBYKaoA20jiaX66TExBeeNrg1lNr4jPmtvr1xKJ3byK8sTvU HHqslBcokebZMLFFvcmRQN9vlxUX5k5NZBaZznxazUTB6hMFzLXlE33t+CsKvVFjlz5V R8z/j+LFe+paij2jyYkZPO4I7ll3dzMze6/jo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=tHc47r75Rw7BcrqTAoBql6MEPgvUb/h4ZKM62lLppcsVL9cORyNla1E+PuH17P/AXV +oDlEyr5NA3eWVd11W70zNmzuA1WQwrCebjN3a6exUzhk9ks/HqpF4l8thzVf+XV69+8 Fg/eVXsJ83+JCApFXlgAH3KAQRKyDeQLjhzIY= Original-Received: by 10.100.29.11 with SMTP id c11mr29878anc.12.1259257327252; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:42:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:117831 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This is a murky area, but the fact that the code can only run together > with GPLv3 code might imply that it is illegal to distribute it under > an incompatible license, even if it's distributed separately. Hm, then perhaps some code became illegal when GPLv3 was released and even more will be illegal when GPLv4 is released...