From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EPL licence for emacs extension distributed via ELPA. Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877gn33uo3.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359062906 10627 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2013 21:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: kostafey Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 22:28:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TyULl-0008I3-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:28:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyULT-0005vi-Id for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyULI-0005ud-2N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyULD-0007gS-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyULD-0007g6-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyUL7-0002z9-R0; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:06 -0500 X-Spook: Panama Attorney General plutonium undercover Europol X-Ran: 9,)Y)0.@"RG3Ab"[rb8>QD:dbjTLB]Q^"A]Z-nbbkOK6+2.!2I!!#SD+dPU}Y;!u]#Dkr- X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88800 Archived-At: kostafey wrote: >>> 1) Is it possible to distribute via ELPA (in repositories like >>> marmalade or melpa) my code with GPL licence together with this EPL >>> code? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EPL The Eclipse Public License is similar to the Common Public License, and our comments on the CPL apply equally to the EPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CommonPublicLicense10 This is a free software license. Unfortunately, its weak copyleft and choice of law clause make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. So I'm not sure you can distribute it anywhere... If the EPL piece is used as a library, you may need to read http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs (But this is unrelated to Emacs and ELPA, so this may not be the best place to get answers to such questions.) > I haven't find licence demands for this repositories, but I thought that > all emacs-related code must be GPL. This has been asked a few times; I'm not sure I've ever seen a definitive answer. Ref eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg01280.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg01368.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-05/msg01424.html