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Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA? |
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Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:19:36 -0400 |
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> > That is what I was referring to. The Debian person who contacted me,
> > asked me whether it would be possible to have a LICENSE file in the
> > package. So I simply thought of using the content of the COPYING file
> > and call it LICENSE. Is this a problem?
> That’s not a problem, no.
Depending on the details of what that means, it might be ok for making
a program free independent of the GNU Project.
But here we want something more specific: we want to make it part of Emacs.
Since Emacs is FSF copyrighted, we want these files to handle the matter
just like the other source files of Emacs.
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- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, (continued)
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2023/07/09
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Uwe Brauer, 2023/07/10
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2023/07/10
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Uwe Brauer, 2023/07/10
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2023/07/10
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2023/07/11
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Uwe Brauer, 2023/07/12
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2023/07/16
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Uwe Brauer, 2023/07/17
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2023/07/17
- Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?,
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