(Cc: debian-legal) On September 4, 2007 at 6:43PM +0200, svenjoac (at gmx.de) wrote:
> > So if we have any such elisp code in Debian, should we exclude > > installation and byte-compilation for versions of Emacs that are > > licensed under the GPL v3? I presume this includes emacs-snapshot and > > likely any future bug fix release of Emacs 22. > > Emacs 22.2 will be released under GPL v3. As for emacs-snapshot, the > first version after upstream's switch to GPL 3 seems to be 1:20070805-1. > > > Have I missed something? > > I think the upstream authors should be contacted to relicense their > code. Especially authors of old code (when v2 was the only GPL > version) might not have been aware of the incompatibility and just > chose sloppy wording that needs to be clarified now. Hmm, *.elc file byte-compiled with GPLv3 Emacs should really be licenced under GPLv3? I think that even if distribution of *.elc file should be licensed under GPLv3, *.el file under non-GPLv3 can be distributed, because locally installation and byte-compilation are not limited by GPLv3. IANAL. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
