From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:49:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34793"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 05:50:51 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 1kKCqo-0008wG-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:50:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCqn-00024e-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCpk-0001A2-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCpj-00027z-Ex; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCpi-0001ET-J5; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:49:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:16:32 -0400) 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:256274 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. ]]] > - While it technically does say "Free Software" it only does that within > the copyright statement. So, maybe we should have something like > > | GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY | > > | Look ma! No license agreement! This is truly Free Software | > > | Copyleft (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | There is no agreement you have to sign, but there IS a license: GNU GPL version 3 or later. The splash screen must give this information. > - We currently have a "GNU/Linux" hyperlink which it would be good to preserve > within the last 2-3 lines. I agree. -- 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)