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: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:16:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83bo9vir0k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9iwcp.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9fiu0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r4jjp2d2.fsf@yandex.ru> <8738vagciq.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365002180 14303 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 15:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 17:16:47 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 1UNPQc-0005ur-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:16:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPQD-0001qK-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPj-00014R-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPg-0007NY-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:43236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNPPg-0007NL-JH; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:15:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKO00K00PZKB300@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:15:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKO00KWJQE0B920@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:15:37 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r4ir4r19.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:158593 Archived-At: > From: Jambunathan K > Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:09:30 +0530 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: >=20 > > () Andreas R=F6hler > > () Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:23:21 +0200 > > > > Wherefrom the eagerness to remove Jambus's code then? > > Seems more people believe that, even if it's wrong wrt GPL. > > > > The GPL exists to serve a social movement centered around sharing= . > > Releasing code under the GPL and then agitating to unshare that > > (and/or future) code works against both the spirit of that moveme= nt > > and the efforts of its supporters. >=20 > I haven't unshared anything. Yes, you have. > I am un-willing to allow the users of Org mode to enjoy the privile= ges > of my changes within the comforts of Emacs. That's it. That's "unsharing" in my book. I hope you realize that it's against the GPL spirit, and possibly als= o the letter (IANAL), to restrict use of Free Software like that. Once you start on this slippery path, your code is not longer free. > So the changes will still continue to be shared and it won't be via > Emacs. A.k.a. "non-free software".