Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules

[Richard Stallman]

    > The GPL requires all code linked to emacs to also be Free. If
    > dynamic linking was allowed that couldn't be gauranteed.

    Has this situation changed after adapting GPL3?

We have tried to make it more explicit that the GPL applies to code
designed to be dynamically linked into Emacs.  However, the question
is whether any free software license can make that requirement.
That is a question of copyright law.

    > The reason guile can do it is that guile is licenced under the
    > GPL+exception which allows for linking to non-commercial code.

I think that meanmt to say "non-GPL code". or "proprietary code".

(Let's not confuse commercial with proprietary!
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.)