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
next prev parent 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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