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Re: etags licence?
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
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Re: etags licence? |
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Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:25:59 -0400 |
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Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
> I just discovered that the etags.c included with Emacs 22 is now
> dual-licenced BSD/GPL, while up to Emacs 21.4 it was GPL only.
> As a consequence, this would mean that Gentoo has to mark its Emacs
> packages with "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" as licence info.
Presumably Gentoo, or any other distribution, does not "have" to do
this, but rather is doing it as a courtesy to its users: I assume the
string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" means that all of the contents of the package
are available under at least one of those licenses. If that is the
case, though, then the string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2" would also be correct, and
more significantly, I doubt any users actually care that portions of the
emacs package are also licensed under BSD.
[snip]
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard