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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:36:17 -0500 |
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I'd object, for basically practical reasons. You can fork code, but you
cannot fork a community. A fork of the LLVM codebase under the GPLv3
makes only sense if you actually add nontrivial nonseparable components
under the GPLv3 or the code base can be just swapped out. If you have
nontrivial nonseparable components, but an actively developed important
upstream, you need to constantly reintegrate the upstream work in order
to keep the edge.
That is true. Legally, we would be allowed to make a copylefted
branch of LLVM. In practice, it is not a substantive option. Unless
we were to add important facilities, we would only be pretending to
have changed the situation.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, (continued)
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/20
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Andreas Röhler, 2014/02/24
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/02/25
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/02/26
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/02/27
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/02/27
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/02/28
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp,
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- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2014/02/17
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2014/02/16
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/02/17
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2014/02/17
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/02/20
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/02/20