From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:27 -0500 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259287968 14977 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 02:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 03:12:41 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 1NDqK8-00077v-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:12:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqK7-0007pH-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqK2-0007ot-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqJy-0007oL-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41528 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDqJy-0007oI-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:39871 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDqJw-0001XA-QB; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:28 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuQEAH7EDktFpYc//2dsb2JhbACBTNQOhDEEgXKIJw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,298,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50133543" Original-Received: from 69-165-135-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.135.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 26 Nov 2009 21:12:27 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 69C07B40E6; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:117841 Archived-At: >> 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... No: releasing a new version of the GPL makes no difference, and neither does releasing a new version of Emacs. What makes a difference is when a package is modified to make use of features that are only provided by an Emacs that uses a new license (e.g. Emacs-23, released under the GPLv3+, adds many new features which are not available in any GPLv2+ emacsen). Stefan