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: The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:57:38 +0900 Message-ID: <878w4jqdl9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19547.55402.208000.241757@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: stephen@xemacs.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281153542 20329 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2010 03:59:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 03:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 07 05:59:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhaYl-00006Q-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhaYl-0008M4-9A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54771 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhaYe-0008Ly-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhaYd-0005Op-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:43535) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhaYd-0005OA-2O; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED541535AE; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:58:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9C2A1A46B1; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:57:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <19547.55402.208000.241757@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:128415 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: > - What is the best way to live in the mixed economy until the > revolution succeeds? Isn't the answer obvious? Don't live in a mixed economy. Accept only free software. I'd be happy to discuss this in more depth, but this is not the place. Reply-To set to me. > - The copyright problem also seems to block Gnu from absorbing, or > even partrnering with, other fully free software. Partnership? No problem at all. The Linux/BSD/TeX/X11/Perl/Python/ Apache/OpenSSH/GNU systems that many of us use involve cooperation of many different licenses in order that the software distributed under them can partner up. "Absorb", of course, is another matter. But here that is being used as a means to freedom; it is not freedom in itself.