From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50446: Emacs FAQ entry "What is the real legal meaning of the GNU copyleft?" still relevant? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:26:33 +0300 Message-ID: <831r60pd1i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a6kocspg.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf48bbhx.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7674"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 50446@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 18:27:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdwF-0001ji-MT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:27:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdwE-0005zv-Lf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdw6-0005z7-OM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdw6-0001by-Gz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdw6-0006br-2Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50446 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50446-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50446.163103199725376 (code B ref 50446); Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50446) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2021 16:26:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57496 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdvg-0006bD-PH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43610) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdvf-0006aw-Ag for 50446@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdvZ-0001Fr-Iu; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2714 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNdvT-0000qU-DP; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:26:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lf48bbhx.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:23:38 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:213710 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:23:38 +0200 > Cc: 50446@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman > > Stefan Kangas writes: > > > Take a look at this list, for example "Welte vs D-Link (2006)": > > > > https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL Enforcement Cases > > > > IANAL, YMMV, etc. but some of these look like court cases to me? > > Yeah, outside the US there's been cases (a French court recently had a > case where they basically said that the GPL couldn't be used the way we > want it to be), but I assumed that this section was about the US... > since the FSF is a US company. I suggest to wait for Richard to chime in, we none of us are lawyers here.