From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Miguel Guedes <miguel.a.guedes@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: clang/emacs/ecb/semantic
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TgDTj-0006Tr-K4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k9kvup$p6v$1@ger.gmane.org> (message from Miguel Guedes on Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:05:15 +0000)
Shouldn't an effort then be made to create a software license or
tweak/upgrade an existing one to ensure free software cannot be used in
ways that go against its very philosophy?
We're limited by copyright law and by 28 years of our own history,
so it is not really an option.
I understand your wish to ensure free software remains free not matter
what, but restricting the freedom of users of free software should not
be the solution; in fact this sounds like a contradiction in itself.
Those words are a paradox, and a misrepresentation of what we do.
Copyleft protects users' essential freedoms, for all users, by
restricting acts by X that might deny essential freedoms to Y.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyleft.html for an explanation
of copyleft.
--
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 Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-05 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-29 16:32 clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Ramneek Handa
2012-11-29 19:59 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Dmitry Gutov
2012-11-29 20:27 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic David Engster
2012-11-29 20:38 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Óscar Fuentes
2012-11-29 20:49 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic David Engster
2012-11-30 2:52 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-11-30 6:34 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-11-30 15:15 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic David Engster
2012-11-30 15:25 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic ramneek
2012-12-01 4:44 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-04 17:04 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic David Engster
2012-11-30 20:11 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-11-30 21:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Óscar Fuentes
2012-12-01 19:30 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-01 19:30 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-11-30 21:50 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-12-02 4:15 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-02 5:13 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Daniel Colascione
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-03 1:42 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Daniel Colascione
2012-12-03 17:08 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 17:21 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Chong Yidong
2012-12-03 17:56 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 18:14 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Daniel Colascione
2012-12-03 18:50 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-03 19:37 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Stefan Monnier
2012-12-04 0:51 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic joakim
2012-12-04 2:17 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Stefan Monnier
2012-12-04 1:04 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic joakim
2012-12-04 0:41 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-03 19:34 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-02 9:04 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-02 13:48 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Helmut Eller
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-03 16:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Burton Samograd
2012-12-04 0:40 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-04 14:05 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Miguel Guedes
2012-12-05 11:49 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-12-05 17:21 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Paul Eggert
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-02 13:59 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-12-03 0:02 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
2012-11-30 6:46 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Helmut Eller
2012-11-30 2:51 ` clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Richard Stallman
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