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: clang/emacs/ecb/semantic Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20940A983D814C6192ABFF2B7A269A88@gmail.com> <87wqx42nag.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ehjcrw70.fsf@engster.org> <87hao816w4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hao7ioos.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87zk1yhib2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87y5hg3jv1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354708235 27014 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2012 11:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miguel Guedes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 12:50:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDUw-0003Jk-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:50:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDUk-00052Y-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDU4-0003HK-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDTm-0005c6-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDTm-0005c1-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgDTj-0006Tr-K4; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:49:27 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Miguel Guedes on Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:05:15 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:155288 Archived-At: 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