Re: is GPL2 or later enough for having a package in ELPA?

[Yuchen Pei]

On Sat 2023-07-08 17:51:59 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> Hi 
>
> A year or so ago, I asked/proposed to move MATLAB emacs from MELPA to
> ELPA. RMS approved, but the move got a bit stuck since some signatures
> of the FSF papers are missing.
>
> I will try to sort it out in the coming weeks but there is one thing I
> forgot.
>
> Is it ok if all lisp files are under GLP 2 or later?

My *speculation*: what happens to packages licensed under GPLv3+ if/when
GPLv4 is published? I suspect they will either remain GPLv3+, or FSF,
the copyright holder of all ELPA packages will bump the license version.
Either way, applying this line of reasoning, package under GPLv2+ should
be ok to include once the copyright assignment is done.

Best,
Yuchen

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