From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EPL licence for emacs extension distributed via ELPA. Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359382717 23626 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2013 14:18:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:18:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 15:18:57 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 1TzpXx-0008KS-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:18:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzpXf-0004jQ-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzpXV-0004hA-CI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzpXP-0006LQ-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:18:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzpXP-0006LJ-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzpXd-0008CC-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.161.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:18:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1IZExjeG5+xG/3vmaKJpbGcxhrw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:88850 Archived-At: > I am going to do an emacs extension on emacs lisp and clojure > languages. The problem is that I should include external clojure > project (it is used as a library), distribued on the terms of Eclipse > Public License 1.0 with a tiny modification. I'm not sure what the above really means, but the following guidelines might help clarify: - Elisp code basically needs to be distributed under a license compatible with the GPL since it necessary links to the rest of Emacs which is GPL'd. - Same for Emacs extensions written in C. - Emacs code can interact with external applications via pipes without any restriction on those applications's licensing model. - You can distribute as a single package a combination of GPL'd Elisp/C code together with some other code using a different license: the mere fact of putting it all into a single tarball does not force you to use the same licenses for all the files. > 1) Is it possible to distribute via ELPA (in repositories like > marmalade or melpa) my code with GPL licence together with this > EPL code? I don't see a particular problem in this regard from any ELPA repository (including GNU ELPA). Stefan