From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19547.55402.208000.241757@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281153861 20997 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2010 04:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 04:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk, stephen@xemacs.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 06:04:20 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 1Ohadv-0001BC-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:04:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ohadu-0000az-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60946 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ohadr-0000au-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohadq-0001fw-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42214) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohadp-0001fr-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ohadj-0000mE-QQ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <19547.55402.208000.241757@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from Uday S Reddy on Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:39:54 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128416 Archived-At: - What is the best way to live in the mixed economy until the revolution succeeds? That is a very broad question, so broad I have no idea how to respond to it. (I don't see any specific connection with Aquamacs.) I can only say that thousands of free software developers are alive today, and I don't think free software development is fatal for many of them. - The copyright problem also seems to block Gnu from absorbing, or even partrnering with, other fully free software (with no question of any nonfree software). I am not sure what you have in mind when you say "partnering with", but I tend to think this is not a real problem in practice.