From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:33:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k5rs1f6n.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1IMYvO-0005J3-5j@fencepost.gnu.org
On 2007-08-19 01:45 +0100, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > The GPL requires all code linked to emacs to also be Free. If
> > dynamic linking was allowed that couldn't be gauranteed.
>
> Has this situation changed after adapting GPL3?
>
> We have tried to make it more explicit that the GPL applies to code
> designed to be dynamically linked into Emacs. However, the question
> is whether any free software license can make that requirement.
> That is a question of copyright law.
But is it OK to include this patch¹ in Emacs? It allows C DEFUN
functions to be placed in external libraries and dynamically loaded when
they were needed.
Footnotes:
¹ http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
Gnus is one component of the Emacs operating system.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-19 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 12:16 A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Mario Lang
2003-07-30 12:42 ` Nic
2003-07-30 13:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 13:43 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 14:24 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-30 14:40 ` Mario Lang
2003-07-30 15:25 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-01 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-01 15:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-04 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-30 19:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-08-17 21:30 ` Leo
2007-08-19 0:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 1:33 ` Leo [this message]
2007-08-19 3:22 ` dhruva
2007-08-19 7:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-08-19 12:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-08-19 13:06 ` David Hansen
2007-08-19 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-19 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-31 4:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 7:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-07-31 9:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-07-31 18:57 ` Alex Schroeder
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