Re: [Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>] Dynamic linking and the GNU GPL
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 09:47:59PM -0400, Kyle Jones wrote:
Since when are extensions to XEmacs required to be GPL'd?
I don't see much difference between dynamically loaded .o files
and dynamically loaded .elc files.
RMS' interpretation (probably backed up by lawyers) is that anything
that requires a GPL'd program or library to work is a derivative work
and such as needs to be under the GPL or less restrictive.
This probably includes elisp programs, yes.
OG.