Re: [Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu>] Dynamic linking and the GNU GPL

Tuesday, 16 June 1998

        Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes:

...
 RMS writes:
  > I've heard that the next release of XEmacs is going to come
  > with a dynamic linking facility.  People might be tempted
  > to use this facility to write proprietary C programs which
  > are extensions of XEmacs--which would violate the GNU GPL.

 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. 
  Neither do I, and once I finish hacking on (load ...) and friends, there
won't be any. :)  I want (load "foo") to search look for foo.ell, then
foo.elc, then foo.el, then just plain foo.

  anybody got any better ideas for naming the modules?  I thought ell was
good enough, stays with the 3 letter extension, and is kind of close to
dll. :)

-Bill P.

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