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Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules
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Leo |
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Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules |
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Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:33:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.0 (20070727) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-08-19 01:45 +0100, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > The GPL requires all code linked to emacs to also be Free. If
> > dynamic linking was allowed that couldn't be gauranteed.
>
> Has this situation changed after adapting GPL3?
>
> We have tried to make it more explicit that the GPL applies to code
> designed to be dynamically linked into Emacs. However, the question
> is whether any free software license can make that requirement.
> That is a question of copyright law.
But is it OK to include this patch¹ in Emacs? It allows C DEFUN
functions to be placed in external libraries and dynamically loaded when
they were needed.
Footnotes:
¹ http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
Gnus is one component of the Emacs operating system.
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- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, dhruva, 2007/08/18
- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/08/19
- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/08/19
- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, David Hansen, 2007/08/19
- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/19
- Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules, Richard Stallman, 2007/08/19