Licensing of Emacs and packages
Use this tag for the legalities of using, distributing and modifying code, documentation and other materials of Emacs itself and Emacs packages.
Some questions about these issues may be better suited to Open Source.
Questions tagged [licensing]
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A non-free package in Emacs?
A while ago, I installed Emacs from the Ubuntu repositories, and have been using it occasionally. Recently, just for fun, I installed vrms, a tool designed to detect non-free software according to the Debian definitions. My system was relatively…
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Why is hl-line+.el not a package?
Apparently hl-line+.el solves certain performance problems of hl-line-mode.
It is created in 2006, and last updated in 2018.
Despite that, it was never packaged to be available at e.g. melpa, which would be a bit more convenient than copy-pasting…
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Using code from other packages in your own
I am currently making a package which is for my own use, but it will be publicly available on github. Some of the code is borrowed from another package. How do I properly accredit the copied code to the original authors? Both the original code and…
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