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From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:55:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si881ztu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9opv8nr.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:59:20 +0200")

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

>> As Oleh Krehel pointed out in a reply to another mail of yours, if your
>> code links to org-mode code (or other GPL code) you cannot release it
>> under a different license. I'm not sure about how linking is intended in
>> Elisp sense of ('require)ing a library, but I believe it is analog to
>> executable linking in machine code programs.
>
> I understand, and I thank you for your clarification.  (Though I still
> consider it plain ridiculous.  And the fact that Oleh's own blog is
> CC-BY-NC-SA licensed, and contains many fragments of Elisp code, both
> small snippets and whole functions, thus rendering it illegal, is
> sweet;-).)

I think posting snippets on a blog falls into "Fair Use". As long as I'm
not posting something which is a full program, this is fine.  Besides,
CC-BY-NC-SA is compatible with GPL! Compatible. With GPL.

Quoting the SA (ShareAlike) part from the website:

> ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you
> must distribute your contributions under the same license as the
> original.

So if anyone dislikes GPL, add CC-...-SA to your list as well.

--Oleh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-28  8:02 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
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 [this message]
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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