"W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am the Debian maintainter of asn1-mode for GNU Emacs and > RMS explicitly educated the upstream authors they have to > release the mode under GPL or not at all. I think, this is > a little bit strange, because one could theoretically write > an Emacs clone using M$ latest crazy EULA as a license, but > elisp-compatible to GNU Emacs. Anyway, with Python things > are different, because the license differs.
What I've seen RMS say before is this: As for the more general question, we think that a program that uses Emacs facilities needs to be GPL-covered, but a program that just uses the Lisp language could have any license--it is not affected by the license of Emacs. In other words, if you're using the Emacs extensions to Lisp, RMS claims you're a derivative work. I don't think he's wrapped his head around the idea that Emacs is an interpreter and library distributed with many operating systems yet... but to keep things on-topic for this list, it doesn't matter much: Debian can't take the OS exception anyway. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
