From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:57:23 +0300 Message-ID: <831uargfzg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87a9pgayzy.fsf@gmail.com> <87bo9wyr74.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87y5d0m3l3.fsf@gmail.com> <515BE920.1000503@online.de> <87obdwvw6v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <515BF509.2040706@online.de> <87k3ok9bq7.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <87r4ir4r19.fsf@gmail.com> <83bo9vir0k.fsf@gnu.org> <87hajn4muw.fsf@gmail.com> <83zjxfh9ik.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9pf4m4j.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5czh8qs.fsf@gnu.org> <8762034la9.fsf@gmail.com> <83wqsjh7tl.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5cz35r2.fsf@gmail.com> <83txnnh770.fsf@gnu.org> <87txnn350a.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppybh61i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwtf33wr.fsf@gmail.com> <83obdvh5cm.fsf@gnu.org> <8738v7a2qm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fvz7h34b.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjxf83pa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365044218 24942 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 02:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kjambunathan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 04 04:57:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNaMZ-00010N-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNaMA-0000qX-W5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNaM6-0000mo-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNaM5-0004n0-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:65342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNaM5-0004mr-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKP00D00MQCGC00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:56:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKP00DQBMUN4J80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:56:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zjxf83pa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158641 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: kjambunathan@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:49:53 +0900 > > > You should read his messages more closely. > > His messages are a red herring. To determine whether the software is > free, all one needs to read is -- the license. See my other message: if you read through all the red herrings, you will see that there's more than the license involved. > There are many reasons why a given project doesn't use code that is > free. This is not about "the project". This is about the restrictions Jambunathan wishes to impose on his code's distribution. Again, _please_ read his messages, however unpleasant that might be.