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.devel Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:45:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6s8e4p0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25156"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 09:47:20 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 1lAqaG-0006SU-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:47:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45006 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAqaF-0000tl-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAqYv-0000QN-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAqYv-0002i3-GW; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4862 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lAqYl-0000mk-Vu; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:45:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from James Lu on Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:04:31 -0500) 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:264581 Archived-At: > From: James Lu > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:04:31 -0500 > Cc: Richard Stallman > > 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, I propose we exercise section 7.4 of > GPLv3 to require "require preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that > material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it" Thanks for letting us know, but please take this discussion elsewhere, either emacs-tangents@gnu.org or even gnu-misc-discuss. This issue is unrelated to the Emacs development, and will unnecessarily increase the noise level on this list, which is dedicated to development of the GNU Emacs project. I urge anyone who wants to respond to please do it elsewhere.