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Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter? |
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Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:04:33 +0200 |
On 2015-07-27, at 18:54, Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 18:01, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> And what if I explicitly want people to be able to use my code in
>> a proprietary software? Or if I just want to use the "Unlicense"? Or
>> if I don't want to use GPL on principle? (And if I still consider Emacs
>
> You are perfectly able to do all of the above with *your* code. What
> you cannot do is "unlicense" my code which I may have released under
> GPL. This is the crux. I, and others, have not released our codes to
> be used however *you* see fit. We have released them under GPL which
> was our decision.
Nope. As stated by someone here (Oleh, I guess), if I (require 'org),
or possibly even just write Elisp, and want to distribute it, it has to
be GPL.
> If your code is not based on mine (or any other code released under
> GPL), then by all means do what you want with it and give whatever
> rights away you wish. If, however, it is based on GPL, you cannot do
> so.
Also, see my other post to see what I mean by "being based" in this
context. It boils down to the question "how much of other code (even
rather generic parts) can I take and still consider this *my* code)".
And this is still not clear.
> If you write a new exporter based purely on the documented API for use
> with org, you can distribute that perfectly fine with whatever licence
> you wish, AFAIK. If you take an existing exporter and modify it for
> your target, then you cannot do other than release with GPL. Likewise
> for your tutorial: if it refers to org documentation (e.g. link to Worg
> or (info)), that is fine; if it includes org documentation, you are back
> to having to release using GPL.
>
> (I'm not a lawyer -- the above is based on my understanding of the
> intent of those of us using GPL as part of org.)
I'm glad to hear that we (more or less) agree. I'm less glad that quite
probably we are mistaken.
> I'm off to make dinner now... :-)
>
> cheers,
> eric
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, (continued)
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Greg Troxel, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Scott Randby, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Eric S Fraga, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Eric S Fraga, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Eric S Fraga, 2015/07/27
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Oleh Krehel, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Eric S Fraga, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Oleh Krehel, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Eric S Fraga, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Andreas Hilboll, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Oleh Krehel, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Andreas Hilboll, 2015/07/28
- Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Oleh Krehel, 2015/07/28
Re: [O] How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?, Richard Lawrence, 2015/07/27