Re: [Ilisp-devel] Re: Bug#169243: ilisp: Is it even distributable?

Peter S Galbraith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal,gmane.lisp.ilisp.devel
Organization Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kevin Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Sorry, it must comply with the GPL now as it makes extensive use of GPL
> > code.
> 
> It is interesting that GNU ships ilisp on their CD:
>   http://www.gnu.org/order/source15.html
> 
> So GNU is okay with redistributing ILISP. I consider their opinion
> important.

Absolutely!
Maybe the FSF doesn't consider Emacs elisp files as GPL'ed libraries,
but just part of the interpreter.  I can ask RMS, but I'll bet it'll
take a while before he replies.

Peter
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