Re: Bug#118427: TP: epo -- Miner mode to reduce the labour to edit code
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:43:44PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Is it even legal for elisp code to have a GPL-incompatible license?
> Any elisp code uses the emacs builtin functions extensively. These are
> protected by the GPL. The concept of linking gets very blurry here,
> too.
Why is this even an issue?
The GPL doesn't use the term "linking" except when talking about
what license the author may want to choose.
Anyways: it's legal for elisp code to have a GPL-incompatible license.
However, it's not legal to distribute GPLed emacs with such code if that
code is intended to be used with emacs to implement some program.
--
Raul
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