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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode exporters licensing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:52:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3ntvmuq.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twsqeyku.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>


On 2015-07-27, at 11:31, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:59, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> See how stupid this whole copyright law swamp is?
>>
>> What if I reuse just the basic structure of sentences in the docstrings,
>> like in "Subject + verb + preposition + object"?  Do I have to use GPL
>> then, too? ;-)
>>
>> And what if I reuse the naming convention of the functions, but to make
>> life easier, I'll just copy large fragments of code and do
>> a query-replace on them?  (This is serious.)
>
> Yes, this whole issue can be quite messy.  The GPL is somewhat viral in
> nature and was (probably, arguably) intended to be so.  Laudable goals
> but sometimes overbearing but let's no go there...

Yes, it's not the discussion I'd like to get into now.

> My view would be that if you use any of org code and you want to release
> that code to the outside world, you will need to license the result
> under GPL.  Given your intent to make your code public domain, this is
> not a bad way to go in any case.

I disagree.  Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy).  Such things should definitely be in PD.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27 11:52 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 [this message]
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
2015-07-27 17:47         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 17:10 ` Achim Gratz

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