Re: master 3d38d1d: Add sqlite3 support to Emacs

[Alexandre Garreau]

Le sabato, 11-a de decembro 2021, 13-a horo kaj 49:36 CET Po Lu a écrit :
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> 
> > It should reuse what gcc does to load its plugins.  GCC asks for a
> > such
> > symbol to check the plugins are GPLv3-compatible.
> 
> That is because GCC is licensed under the GPLv3.  Ditto for Emacs, which
> checks for the same symbol before loading a dynamic module.
> 
> The question here is what to do with SQLite plugins, which are specific
> to SQLite and not Emacs, and are not legally required to be
> GPLv3-compatible.

Shouldn’t we hack both sqlite and its module to integrate just the same 
symbol?

If ever sqlite people disagree (if they write proprietary software, 
they’re likely not that librists, hence maybe anti-copyleft), we could 
convince distributions to force that change instead.  Most distributions 
patch software.  Debian would be a first candidate (and would cascade effect 
on many of its derivatives).  It would just as well be in the interest of 
RedHat.  Arch and Gentoo are usually less enthusiasts about such issues, 
but they’re versatile and if bigger distributions start doing it, and 
doing otherwise breaks software, they’ll end up changing that too.

Plus it doesn’t seem to be a very complex change, hence maintaining a 
single patch for that shouldn’t be that difficult over time.