From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:27:45 +0900 Message-ID: <8738v7a2qm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ober717z.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> <83bo9vir0k.fsf@gnu.org> <87hajn4muw.fsf@gmail.com> <83zjxfh9ik.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9pf4m4j.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5czh8qs.fsf@gnu.org> <8762034la9.fsf@gmail.com> <83wqsjh7tl.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5cz35r2.fsf@gmail.com> <83txnnh770.fsf@gnu.org> <87txnn350a.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppybh61i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwtf33wr.fsf@gmail.com> <83obdvh5cm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365013691 19503 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 18:28:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jambunathan K , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 20:28:39 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 1UNSQG-0004GF-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:28:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNSPr-0005Td-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNSPn-0005SB-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNSPj-0003pm-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNSPf-0003k5-81; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2339708AA; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 03:27:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6C4E01A3DCA; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 03:27:45 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83obdvh5cm.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:158616 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Again, which of the 4 freedoms and what is the restriction that you are > > talking about. > > All of them. I already said why, go and re-read if you still don't > understand. No, Eli, it's you that don't understand. Software is free software if and only if it is distributed under a free software license, by the definition of "free software license".[1] Jambunathan's code is distributed under the GPL, and that is that. Footnotes: [1] Except for the corner case of software in the public domain, which technically speaking is not under license at all, but does give its recipients the four freedoms in full.