From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:03:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oaixvgs7.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnex4wzf.fsf@gmail.com>
On 2015-07-27, at 14:16, Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> after a short discussion in a recent thread, I have a serious technical
>> question.
>>
>> Assume that (for some reason) I want to write an Org-mode exporter which
>> won't be GPL'd. (Use-case: having written a few custom exporters, I'm
>> writing a tutorial on them, and I consider publishing a *tutorial* with
>> GPL'd code a Bad Thing™. (The idea of a programming tutorial is that
>> other people can or even should reuse the code in the tutorial, right?
>> And I see no reason to impose GPL on them.))
>>
>> How do I do that? Is that even possible? Also, is it possible to get
>> an actual answer to this question without spending money on lawyers?
>
> Like I said in an earlier message just a few minutes ago, you can do it,
> but you can't use org.el or Elisp at all, unless you implement your own
> Elisp engine that you call.
Well, I hardly believe what I read here...
> The GPL isn't as evil as you make it out to be: in fact, it's not evil
> at all: it only ensures that you pass on the freedom that you receive to
> others, i.e. **you are not free to remove freedom from others**.
>
> As for documentation, here I cite a bit of Elisp manual:
>
> (a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and
> modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
> developing GNU and promoting software freedom.”
>
> Just think about it: on 99% of published books it says:
>
> No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
> system, or transmitted, in any form or by means electronic,
> mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written
> permission of the publisher.
>
> Now who is the evil guy here?
Let's not beat that dead horse again. (BTW, hardly anyone cares about
that notice on published books, and rightly so.)
> regards,
> Oleh
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-27 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-27 12:10 How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 12:16 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 13:02 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-07-27 13:09 ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-27 13:13 ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-27 13:30 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-07-27 14:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 14:03 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-07-28 12:33 ` Paul Rudin
2015-07-27 12:39 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 16:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:02 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-27 18:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:45 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-28 7:55 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-29 14:54 ` Aaron Ecay
2015-07-30 10:08 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 13:05 ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-27 14:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 13:58 ` Scott Randby
2015-07-27 16:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 15:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 16:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 16:12 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 17:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 17:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-07-27 16:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 17:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28 8:07 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28 9:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28 9:00 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28 10:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28 9:20 ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-28 9:30 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28 10:14 ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-28 10:29 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 18:32 ` Richard Lawrence
2015-08-04 15:04 ` Phillip Lord
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