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From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode exporters licensing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:50:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B62905.7030006@grinta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4i13hyv.fsf@gmail.com>

On 27/07/15 14:25, Oleh Krehel wrote:
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> 
>> Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release
>>> your code under GPL.
>>
>> Are you sure about that?  By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as
>> they use (defun ·), implicitly loaded from byte-run.
> 
> I'm pretty sure: you're calling a library that is GPLv3.  There was this
> whole TiVo issue about linking GPL libraries to non-GPL code, which
> resulted in GPLv3. I just checked, and `progn' is GPLv3 and not GPLv2
> (which would at least have a chance to be linked).

Hello,

I'm not sure that using an interpreter for running some code classifies
as linking, but I don't know of any "official" statement on the subject.

On the other hand, Elisp is an extension language for a GPL program,
thus it may be argued that implicitly everything coded in Elist is an
extension of Emacs and therefore linked to it.

I believe this issue must have come up before. Does anyone have a link
to some statement from the GNU Project about this?

Cheers,
Daniele

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27  8:06 Org-mode exporters licensing Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27  8:16 ` Rasmus
2015-07-27  8:26   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27  8:35     ` Rasmus
2015-07-27  9:05       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27  9:46         ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 11:50           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27  8:42 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27  8:59   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27  9:31     ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 11:52       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 12:17         ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 12:42           ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-27 12:52             ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 17:45               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-02 16:54                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-07-27 17:44             ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 17:42           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:02             ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 18:20               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:30                 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 18:49                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-28  7:05                     ` Robert Klein
2015-07-27 12:06 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 12:27   ` Rasmus
2015-07-27 12:25     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 12:50       ` Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2015-07-27 17:47         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 17:10 ` Achim Gratz

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