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Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:27 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, (continued)
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/25
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Richard Stallman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Jonas Bernoulli, 2009/11/26
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, David Kastrup, 2009/11/26
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Richard Stallman, 2009/11/27
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/25
- Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/25
Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs, Giorgos Keramidas, 2009/11/25