From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:49:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87he39834g.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5brtjvb2m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "17 Sep 2003 14:44:33 +0200")
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
David> Copyright law allows you making personal copies and
David> distributing to a computer on which you'd like to use it.
I think you do not know the relevant definition of "distribution", and
in any case AFAIK copyright law allows only _backup_ copies, as sort
of a "fair use" exception (in the US).
David> I can redistribute but don't need to heed that I need to
David> include the source code? Hardly.
That is not one of the options that the GPL offers. Your claim is
equivalent to understanding "you can go to the supermarket and get an
apple" as meaning "without paying". Be serious.
David> But one should avoid stating misleading things.
You have amply proved that there is no way to avoid misunderstanding
if the reader wilfully misunderstands. Either we assume a reasonable,
honest reader, or we are forced to present the exact license terms.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 16:20 May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Frank Schmitt
2003-09-12 17:28 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-12 17:37 ` Frank Schmitt
[not found] ` <ich@Frank-Schmitt.net>
2003-09-12 18:52 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-09-12 20:20 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-12 20:50 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-09-13 9:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-09-15 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-15 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-16 6:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-16 7:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-16 22:27 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-17 12:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-17 12:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-18 11:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-18 13:05 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-18 23:05 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-19 4:58 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-09-19 9:49 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <ullslrp8n.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de>
2003-09-19 13:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-19 15:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-19 10:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-09-21 0:51 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-16 6:17 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-09-12 19:44 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-12 20:07 ` Peter Lee
2003-09-12 21:00 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-13 2:27 ` Peter Lee
2003-09-12 20:47 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-09-13 14:01 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-14 7:47 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-09-13 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-13 11:10 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-09-13 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-13 19:25 ` Frank Schmitt
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