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> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 16:34:03 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Could the problem be attacked from some other angle? It is about
> defending in court room? What do you defend in court room?

Basically, it's defense against someone taking Emacs, making changes
in its code, and then distributing that derivative as their
proprietary product without making the modified source code available.