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Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?
Date: 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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