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Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:19:09 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Is it even "legal" to distribute any elisp code that is not at least
>> compatible with the GPL?
>
> I think it is indeed "not legal", but I don't think this has been tested
> in court, nor have I even heard any rumor of a lawyer expressing an
> opinion on the issue.

rms has said at least twice (IIRC) that he was asking a lawyer this
question, but I never seen an answer. Eg:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg01368.html

(I think there was a more recent repeat than that, but I can't find it
now.)



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