Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules

[Leo]

On 2007-08-19 01:45 +0100, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > 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.

But is it OK to include this patch¹ in Emacs? It allows C DEFUN
functions to be placed in external libraries and dynamically loaded when
they were needed.

Footnotes: 
¹  http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

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