> >>>>> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raul> Look at the situation this way: the GPL restricts the > Raul> distribution of emacs, not that of independently written > Raul> code. The question asked was whether it was legal to > Raul> distribute some non-gpled elisp code -- and the answer has > Raul> to have a lot to do with how closely the code is tied to > Raul> gpl'd emacs (gnu emacs vs. xemacs, ferinstance).
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:04:20AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > How is this different distributing a version of ripem (sp?) that > required GMP? That was a contributory infringement issue. [In the U.S., at least, if you do a lot to make it easy for people to violate copyright you may be held liable for copyright infringement.] That might happen here, but I've not yet seen enough to make me believe that that's happening. -- Raul
