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

Tuesday, 16 June 1998

        Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; writes:

...
 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. 
No, it doesn't inclue Elisp programs.  (not a rumor; I asked Stallman.)

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