From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Licence of ts-comint
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:50:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dkeTP-0000WC-4N@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva82r54oy.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:51:45 -0400)
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> To a first approximation, in my experience, weak licenses are promoted
> by people who don't like to say "free software" (and even less talk
> about software freedom) while people who use the word "free software" or
> "software freedom" will usually promote the GPL.
You've said that "not copyleft" usually implies "don't say free
software" and "say free software" usually implies "copyleft". Those
two statements are equivalent.
But the converse is not true. There are companies that don't
particularly care about freedom, and don't say "free software", but do
release code under the GNU GPL as part of their business model.
They don't support our ideals, but their practical support does help.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <C7FBB42B-2311-44F5-B940-22426AC1B2B7@gmail.com>
2017-08-13 10:58 ` Licence of ts-comint Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-08-13 12:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-14 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-13 18:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-13 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-13 23:35 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-14 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-14 20:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-14 20:54 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-15 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-21 20:21 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23 3:51 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 4:36 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 5:36 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23 5:56 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-23 11:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 22:50 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-08-24 10:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 14:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33 ` John Yates
2017-08-22 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22 20:16 ` John Yates
2017-08-23 0:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
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