From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniele Nicolodi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:43:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1984fde0-7559-15dd-d477-e64747817aa2@grinta.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11347"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 16 08:44:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1lBv2Q-0002qR-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59874 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBv2P-0007Z2-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBv17-000763-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from grinta.net ([109.74.203.128]:38512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBv12-000850-NU; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from black.local (p4fe717e2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.231.23.226]) (Authenticated sender: daniele) by grinta.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA3E7E0501; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:43:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=grinta.net; s=2020; t=1613461400; bh=KAqKbAotUstnUUD8B4x6jausdLa/Pa5yxGCCrVDlGjU=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=fpbcZsIfyGkDkyBSSR2cnkWR4ljdjNDfjSZPyoByMLxnvRDbNAEU2nTHKE1z0b67O F/YPaQ++uEEae4UngvHa1P5osT7HVJlaQUm1s0Bh0XP/9CoqdoE6tiYgt+jNT0FxtJ NFY5KtqBxWr4avGlQsAXL5EF87hUf3QDpSSr5Fc6ayA4F/bLysnQOs7FYXTDeUbji2 +ZW/l6z4uYZ9XTHaVETVK2HEVBiChd+6YJRh+oHJXhahrbrGG4ze2YEYzb0sxSQl0v 1Tsh7kQ07RdVv+hwiQ09YSbELhBaolPJW6k0eFrSb1YOa3JeYQuNmgchTTjtBqodAg i2EJ5UdSQPZLQ== In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=109.74.203.128; envelope-from=daniele@grinta.net; helo=grinta.net X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264873 Archived-At: On 16/02/2021 06:19, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux > > > controversy, where a variant of GNU software was called something else > > > and disassociated from free software, > > To what do you refer exactly here? I don't recall anything like this > > ever happening, but your terse description may not help my memory. > > I think Lu was referring to the widespread misnomer of "Linux system" > when referring to a variant of the GNU system which has Linux as the > kernel. See https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and > https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html. I am well aware of this, but it is a very long stretch to describe this as Lu did, especially the "disassociated from free software" part. I am sure that in your long years of activism you very well understood that one important thing in perusing a cause is to frame it precisely and correctly. Cheers, Dan