Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probable okay, but doesn't specify a version number at all: > , > |;;; minibuf-electric.el -- Electric minibuffer behavior from XEmacs. [...] > |;; GPL. > ` Although it is probably worth checking with the authors in any case, you might note

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This isn't strictly an Emacs isuue, but it certainly affects us... > > > > As I understand it, the GPL v3 is more strict then the GPL v2 and thus > > is incompatible. Is that correct? > > It seems so,

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Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. I disagree. It's not simply about byte-comp

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
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Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
(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 >

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This isn't strictly an Emacs isuue, but it certainly affects us... > > As I understand it, the GPL v3 is more strict then the GPL v2 and thus > is incompatible. Is that correct? It seems so, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatib

GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This isn't strictly an Emacs isuue, but it certainly affects us... As I understand it, the GPL v3 is more strict then the GPL v2 and thus is incompatible. Is that correct? That means that as Emacs migrates to GPL v3, and elisp code licensed under the GPL v2 (without the "or any later version" bi