Hello,
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
And I do not. I suspect that many authors don't care, and use GPL (or
BSD, or other license) just so that they don't have to write a license
themselves. Of course, this is only my suspicion, and I might be
totally wrong.
As a data point, in
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:49:05 +0200
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl wrote:
On 2015-07-27, at 20:30, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 20:20, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
On 2015-07-27, at 20:02, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net
wrote:
On 27/07/15 19:42, Marcin
On 2015-07-27, at 11:31, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:59, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
[...]
See how stupid this whole copyright law swamp is?
What if I reuse just the basic structure of sentences in the docstrings,
like in Subject + verb + preposition +
On 2015-07-27, at 11:46, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 11:05, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
[...]
Frankly speaking, I'm rather astonished at your and Eric's answers.
I treated my question as a formality, and expected answers like Of
course you can do it, don't
Oleh Krehel ohwoeo...@gmail.com writes:
If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release
your code under GPL.
Are you sure about that? By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as
they use (defun ·), implicitly loaded from byte-run.
Rasmus
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Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes:
Oleh Krehel ohwoeo...@gmail.com writes:
If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release
your code under GPL.
Are you sure about that? By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as
they use (defun ·), implicitly loaded from byte-run.
I'm
On 27/07/15 14:42, Greg Troxel wrote:
Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net writes:
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy). Such things should
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
I'm preparing a tutorial on writing Org-mode exporters. To this end,
I'm writing a (simplistic) Oddmuse/WikiCreole exporter. Rather
obviously, I'm modeling it on existing exporters (mainly ox-latex),
which seem to share a lot of structure (function
Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net writes:
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy). Such things should definitely be in PD.
[many excellent
On 27/07/15 14:25, Oleh Krehel wrote:
Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes:
Oleh Krehel ohwoeo...@gmail.com writes:
If anywhere in your code there's (require 'org), you have to release
your code under GPL.
Are you sure about that? By this logic, *any* .el file should be GPL as
they use (defun
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy). Such things should definitely be in PD.
As yourself pointed out in one of your emails, in many legal
Marcin Borkowski writes:
I'm preparing a tutorial on writing Org-mode exporters. To this end,
I'm writing a (simplistic) Oddmuse/WikiCreole exporter. Rather
obviously, I'm modeling it on existing exporters (mainly ox-latex),
which seem to share a lot of structure (function names and
On 2015-07-27, at 14:52, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 14:42, Greg Troxel wrote:
Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net writes:
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain
On 27/07/15 19:42, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
That I've already learned. OTOH, one of the reasons to use PD might be
that I explicitly state that I object the legal system I live in. (Mind
you: I'm not an anarchist, and I'm very far from that. But this system
is almost unbearable.)
This
On 2015-07-27, at 14:17, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy). Such things should definitely be in PD.
On 2015-07-27, at 14:50, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
I'm not sure that using an interpreter for running some code classifies
as linking, but I don't know of any official statement on the subject.
On the other hand, Elisp is an extension language for a GPL program,
thus it may
On 2015-07-27, at 20:02, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 19:42, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
That I've already learned. OTOH, one of the reasons to use PD might be
that I explicitly state that I object the legal system I live in. (Mind
you: I'm not an anarchist, and I'm
On 2015-07-27, at 14:42, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net writes:
On 27/07/15 13:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
I disagree. Licensing a tutorial with GPL is a stupid thing to do.
A tutorial may contain code which people naturally mimic (or even
copy).
On 27/07/15 20:20, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
On 2015-07-27, at 20:02, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 19:42, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
That I've already learned. OTOH, one of the reasons to use PD might be
that I explicitly state that I object the legal system I live
On 2015-07-27, at 20:30, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 20:20, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
On 2015-07-27, at 20:02, Daniele Nicolodi dani...@grinta.net wrote:
On 27/07/15 19:42, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
That I've already learned. OTOH, one of the reasons to use PD
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
I reuse parts of GPL'd code (as I mentioned, quite generic ones, but
still). Is it fine, or should I expect a visit from EFF lawyers or
something?
My guess would be no. You should ask the FSF lawyers.
Rasmus
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On 2015-07-27, at 10:16, Rasmus ras...@gmx.us wrote:
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
I reuse parts of GPL'd code (as I mentioned, quite generic ones, but
still). Is it fine, or should I expect a visit from EFF lawyers or
something?
My guess would be no. You should ask the FSF
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:06, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Hi all,
I'm preparing a tutorial on writing Org-mode exporters. To this end,
I'm writing a (simplistic) Oddmuse/WikiCreole exporter. Rather
obviously, I'm modeling it on existing exporters (mainly ox-latex),
which seem to share a lot
On 2015-07-27, at 10:42, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:06, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Hi all,
I'm preparing a tutorial on writing Org-mode exporters. To this end,
I'm writing a (simplistic) Oddmuse/WikiCreole exporter. Rather
obviously, I'm modeling it
On 2015-07-27, at 10:35, Rasmus ras...@gmx.us wrote:
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
On 2015-07-27, at 10:16, Rasmus ras...@gmx.us wrote:
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
I reuse parts of GPL'd code (as I mentioned, quite generic ones, but
still). Is it fine, or should I
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 10:59, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
[...]
See how stupid this whole copyright law swamp is?
What if I reuse just the basic structure of sentences in the docstrings,
like in Subject + verb + preposition + object? Do I have to use GPL
then, too? ;-)
And what if I reuse
On Monday, 27 Jul 2015 at 11:05, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
[...]
Frankly speaking, I'm rather astonished at your and Eric's answers.
I treated my question as a formality, and expected answers like Of
course you can do it, don't be silly.
Oh, sorry! I thought you actually did want to get some
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
On 2015-07-27, at 10:16, Rasmus ras...@gmx.us wrote:
Marcin Borkowski mb...@mbork.pl writes:
I reuse parts of GPL'd code (as I mentioned, quite generic ones, but
still). Is it fine, or should I expect a visit from EFF lawyers or
something?
My
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