Re: Implied exceptions to GPL?

[Richard Kettlewell <richardk@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> It is always ok to distribute a code (call it A) that doesn't
> include anyone else's code, as long as the license for A permits it.
> However, now I'm going to agree with you, because Debian should be
> able to distribute binaries as well (DFSG #2).  Those binaries will
> have parts of Emacs inside it.  So the license for the various elisp
> files need to be compatible with the GPL.

Superficially, the relationship between emacs and compiled elisp files
looks more like compilation and execution than linking to me.  What's
the argument for treating it as linking?

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