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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:04:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71d61860-06de-58d6-9274-0d63bac1fc87@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQHGB1NJG8qGt04nor3__K16=+u=_zqJJ=yjQCDFz9+OoMJew@mail.gmail.com>

On 11.02.2021 08:04, James Lu wrote:
> "You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you 
> receive it, in any medium, **provided that you conspicuously and 
> appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice**; 
> keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive 
> term"

Spacemacs and similar "distributions" actually don't redistribute Emacs 
itself. They're just collections of extensions together with 
instructions for installing them.

So I don't think this condition can apply, legally speaking.

(IANAL, though.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-13 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-11  6:04 Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen James Lu
2021-02-13  8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 10:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 12:04 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2021-02-13 21:49 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-16  5:19   ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-16  5:33     ` James Lu
2021-02-16 17:38       ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-02-16  7:43     ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-14  6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-24  7:01 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-25 23:35   ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-26  2:32   ` James Lu
2021-03-26  6:33     ` Pankaj Jangid

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