From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:51:55 +0200 Message-ID: <85br4rxd3o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sly54b2s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <85ek9o40hg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mzobzlvk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122300793 2159 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 14:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 16:13:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx3gC-0006af-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx3iU-0005G6-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx3iK-0005FW-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx3iJ-0005Ev-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx3f0-00047H-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dx3RE-0002Za-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dx3G8-0000rJ-Ki; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 256E31C4CD77; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:51:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:39:04 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41210 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > David Kastrup 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