From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:49:19 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87he39834g.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <3097.1063392768@mixed> <87ad96sldl.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87u17di5oz.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87u17bfwu0.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063969229 13488 80.91.224.253 (19 Sep 2003 11:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 13:00:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0Izz-00012U-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0J4P-0005Bh-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:05:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0IzI-0005bh-Gf for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:59:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0Ixs-0005Wr-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0Ipa-0003jp-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.98.109] (helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0IpF-0003gD-7D; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0IpD-0003Uc-00; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:49:19 +0900 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "17 Sep 2003 14:44:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16483 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16483 >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup 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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.