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: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18822.41538.150077.451125@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18822.52229.644385.706466@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20030.54198.935820.969776@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20031.31400.99411.903245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fwlcnwvg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E40DD50.8050002@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312935811 27500 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2011 00:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Röhler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 02:23:27 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 1QqwZy-0002KH-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwZx-0000mx-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwZt-0000le-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwZs-0008Cr-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwZr-0008Ck-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqwZj-0004kJ-1o; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:23:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <4E40DD50.8050002@online.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:10:08 +0200) 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:143083 Archived-At: > Since these files are not under the GPL, we are not leading anyone to > violate the GPL. So there is no legal issue, but there remains an > ethical issue: is it wrong for a release to contain generated files > made from sources that are distributed separately? In case you answer "yes", you must include the gcc-sources as well. That is mistaken -- nothing in Emacs is generated from source files in GCC, so GCC is not part of the sorce code of Emacs. Perhaps you have overlooked the distinction between the source files and tools. Would the GPL say politely: please do, it's recommended, than it's fine for sure. If you want to criticize the GPL, please do it in gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org, not here. -- 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/