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: Letting the users off the hook Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vcus3slm.fsf@engster.org> <87k4b4jv8p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877h7444uj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tya82mv5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ei1bzjwg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E3133CE.7010101@cs.ucla.edu> <4E31F0B3.3030505@cs.ucla.edu> <87mxfw90oo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r558ms8j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkjv33w3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjpn8if0.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87sjpm7lvt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878vrepc6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mxfunx4h.fsf@gnus.org> <877h6yp652.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874o21pazd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312345020 26577 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2011 04:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 04:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, brett@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 03 06:16:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt5-00028x-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt5-0000g1-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt2-0000fw-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt1-0002BZ-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:46796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt1-0002BV-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoSt0-0004qz-5l; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:16:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <874o21pazd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142772 Archived-At: This time with the right version numbers. The FSF hereby grants permission to distribute the old Emacs 23.2 and 23.3 releases, notwithstanding the absence therein of the real source files for the CEDET parsers (the grammar files). This permission extends to versions with unrelated modifications, provided those versions comply with GNU GPL version 3 in all other respects. Thanks to improvements in GPL version 3, we don't need to explicitly forgive past violations caused by redistributing Emacs 23.1 and 23.2, because those violations would only become legally significant if the FSF were to complain about them to the redistributors within 60 days. The FSF, having granted the above permission to distribute those releases, could not complain about it. The FSF urges all redistributors to upgrade to the revised Emacs 23.1 and 23.2 releases, which do not have this problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/