Re: [Ilisp-devel] ILISP License Status.

Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> writes:

> Looking at the existing COPYING file (primarily the "Any work
> distributed or published ..." clause) it seems to me that GPL would be
> a closer match for the terms there than LGPL, for what that's worth.
> But I also note the bit where it says -
>
> | ILISP if freely redistributable. Eventually it may become part of GNU
> | Emacs and it will in that case comply with the GPL.
>
> Perhaps you could get the Emacs people to include it in Emacs so that
> it automatically gets relicensed? :-)

Getting it into GNU Emacs (as distributed by the FSF) would be hard,
because the FSF would want legal papers from every contributor.  (That
would be more work than for simply changing the license.)  But doesn't
XEmacs count as a version of GNU Emacs?  Isn't ILISP already part of
XEmacs?  So maybe it *has* already got relicensed automatically, and
we just didn't notice ;)

Seriously, since the COPYING file says that ILISP may change to GPL at
some time, I can't imagine why a contributor would object when we make
that license change.

-- 
Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe


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