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Re: Packages, release notes, etc
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tomas |
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Re: Packages, release notes, etc |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:31:51 +0200 |
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Michael Welle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
> > With respect to license, I think it is not even possible for an emacs
> > package to have a license different than GPL version 3 or later. Each
> > package is a combined work of emacs + X so the emacs license extends to
> > the package. That's probably the reason why there's no special License
> > field in the standard headers.
> Hm, so it isn't possible to distribute a package that is in the public
> domain or maybe one that is Artistic ver. 2.0 licensed via ELPA or one of
> the other repositories? I doubt that.
This looks strange to me too. Tassilo: are you sure you didn't mean
"...to have a license incompatible than GPLV3 [or later]"?
Of course, the "or later" is the hard part here. How do we know that
Apache V2 is compatible with yet-to-know GPLV4?
regards
- -- t
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- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Tassilo Horn, 2015/09/10
- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/10
- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Tassilo Horn, 2015/09/10
- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/10
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- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/09/10
- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, Alan Schmitt, 2015/09/11
- Re: Packages, release notes, etc, tomas, 2015/09/11
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