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Re: Implied exceptions to GPL?



Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> wrote:
> Another interesting example: Emacs is a GPL'ed interpreter has you can
> hardly code for without using it's GPL'ed bindings.  Therefore external
> elisp code must be distributed under a GPL-compatible license.  At some
> point we should go over all the elisp packages in Debian to make sure
> that's true.

Actually, many (most?) of the elisp packages that Debian distributes
are in source code format.  It is only when distributing binaries that
you have to worry about GPL-compatibility.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu


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