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Re: gsettings.m4 copyright


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: Re: gsettings.m4 copyright
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 22:48:36 -0500

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> GNU Project policy is that it's ok to import code from other released
> free packages whose licenses are compatible with the license we are
> using (which is GPL3-or-later).  The license LGPL-2.1 is compatible,
> so we can import this code.
>
> We should make sure it carries the copyright notices and license
> notices that it should have.  The fact it was missing those is a
> small problem, but we can fix that.

Does this policy apply to importing Emacs Lisp libraries as well?

I assume that the answer is "no", but if so I think it would be useful
to briefly explain why that case should be viewed differently.

Thanks in advance.



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