From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87b29866-51a6-05b5-c08f-94201bce3d89@online.de> <25b4532b-b2db-e813-7c4c-ee75770e98d6@cs.ucla.edu> <76369283-85b0-779d-0418-457abfd01db3@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500435236 30525 195.159.176.226 (19 Jul 2017 03:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 03:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 05:33:52 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfkD-0007XN-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 05:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfkJ-0004Tc-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfip-00042d-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfip-0002MI-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfim-0002KR-Ue; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dXfim-0001vC-Ag; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:42:11 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216870 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Enforced freedom? nobody there was obligated to benefit from freedom. > What was enforced was the obligation for Cisco to transfer to their > clients the freedom they decided to enjoy. You stated that very well. The purpose of copyleft is to defend freedom for all users of our software. To defend their freedom requires preventing middlemen (Cisco in that case) from stripping off the freedom when they redistribute the software to others. In other words, when we distribute Emacs to A, and A redistributes Emacs to B, C and D, copyleft protects the freedom of B, C and D by requiring A to pass along Emacs to them with the full four freedoms. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.