From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:44:49 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wue0i51a.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <871xw8i3tr.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059848467 15455 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2003 18:21:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mlang@delysid.org, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 20:21:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19j10K-0005yw-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 20:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19j13b-0002oY-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 20:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19j0Ai-00030a-Qz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 13:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19iyib-0003zF-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19icJV-0001lT-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.63] (helo=harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ic5M-0008Ae-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1 (built Aug 19 2002)) with SMTP id <0HIY00IXZ6EQ2C@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:44:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4812 invoked by uid 500); Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:45:12 +0000 In-reply-to: Original-To: rms@gnu.org Mail-followup-to: rms@gnu.org, mlang@delysid.org, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15777 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15777 Richard Stallman wrote: > Emacs could use the same exception in its license that Guile > uses. > > That sort of exception is similar to use of the LGPL. (I wonder why Guile doesn't simply use the LGPL, then.) But aren't there plans to make Emacs based on Guile with an elisp translator? Then Emacs will get the exception (and the dynamic extension capability) anyway, won't it? paul