From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 23:49:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <547c9116-c1c3-8563-4aee-c62aa2302861@yandex.ru> <838shybfdo.fsf@gnu.org> <3f79ff6e-2471-fa6d-08ff-682afd504eca@yandex.ru> <83v9l29yz3.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8qujs0p.fsf@randomsample> <83lfly9vvs.fsf@gnu.org> <835zd29rjb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="88904"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, deng@randomsample.de, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 05:52:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWpG-000N0Y-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 05:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWpF-0006Jn-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWml-0003SM-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWmk-0002eW-R3; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWmg-0005jl-CJ; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:49:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <835zd29rjb.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 11 May 2020 22:54:00 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250703 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. ]]] > I don't think we should give up our standards to gain a couple of > marketing points. It is completely backwards, IMO, to put that cart > ahead of the horse. We are supposed to develop high-quality software high quality _and_ freedom-defending! > first and advertising ourselves second, not the other way around. Yes, exactly. We do not accept the set of values that most programmers take for granted. On the contrary, rejecting some of those values is our most important mission. We _must_ show people that we are serious about condemning nonfree software -- and that means we don't compromise on that question. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)