Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PSG> I thought this was a fairly clear-cut issue, but people on > PSG> -legal seem to be saying that you can use a (possibly > PSG> interpreted instead of linked) GPL'ed library with code of any > PSG> license, so there's no problem. > > When I met a proprietary Elisp program several years ago and wondered > about this phenomenon on an Emacs mailing list, it was explained to me > that a program needn't be GPLed just because it happens to be written in > Elisp.
My understand was that this is correct until you load a GPL library through a `load' or `require'. I may ask the FSF (or RMS) is they even care about this issue if it concerns their own GPL v3 libraries. But I had this discussion before with RMS a few year ago. -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
