From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:51:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85br4rxd3o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1Dx1IW-0004QfC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:39:04 +0000 (UTC)")
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote,
>
> XEmacs, after all, does meet the criteria of free software.
>
> Actually and unfortunately, we do not know whether it does.
>
> Certainly, the main authors intend that. But they have not
> collected the legal paperwork necessary to prove it to a hostile
> court.
It shares this property with a large body of free software. Not
everybody is as careful as the FSF with regard to copyright
assignments.
Following your way of reasoning, Linux is a non-free operating system
kernel, and we should remove all references to GNU/Linux from Emacs.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-21 21:49 Strange change in bytecmop.el Stefan Monnier
2005-07-21 23:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-22 22:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-23 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-24 14:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-24 16:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 1:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-25 1:59 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 11:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-07-25 12:51 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-25 16:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-25 17:21 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 8:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-26 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 10:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-26 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 12:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-28 22:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-24 14:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=85br4rxd3o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz \
--to=dak@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).