From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleh Krehel Subject: Re: Org-mode exporters licensing Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:25:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87y4i13hyv.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87io962fdz.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r3nt4xf0.fsf@gmail.com> <878ua1vl9n.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJhaZ-0000oA-Te for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:33:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJhaV-0008Ns-PK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:33:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::234]:37154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJhaV-0008NT-IY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:32:59 -0400 Received: by wibud3 with SMTP id ud3so113635252wib.0 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 05:32:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878ua1vl9n.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:27:00 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rasmus Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Rasmus writes: > Oleh Krehel writes: > >> If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release >> your code under GPL. > > Are you sure about that? By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as > they use (defun =C2=B7), implicitly loaded from byte-run. I'm pretty sure: you're calling a library that is GPLv3. There was this whole TiVo issue about linking GPL libraries to non-GPL code, which resulted in GPLv3. I just checked, and `progn' is GPLv3 and not GPLv2 (which would at least have a chance to be linked). --Oleh