Stream: Proof General devs

Topic: PG under GPLv3+


view this post on Zulip Erik Martin-Dorel (Nov 25 2021 at 15:52):

Just FYI (in case you're not a watcher of ProofGeneral's GitHub repo), the change of PG's license to GPL-3.0-or-later (undertook a couple of years ago, cf. #198) is now effective:

So henceforth, PG has the very same license as that of GNU Emacs.

view this post on Zulip Karl Palmskog (Nov 25 2021 at 16:13):

does PG's license affect users in any way? For example, can PG generate code under certain circumstances?

view this post on Zulip Erik Martin-Dorel (Nov 25 2021 at 16:20):

No (that's the reason why I posted this heads-up in Proof General devs and not Proof General users :)

Actually the only user-facing impact is for contributors:
beforehand, it was not possible to accept contributions that include-or-extend snippets directly taken from Emacs' codebase (because GPLv2 and GPLv3+ are incompatible).


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