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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kLG7E-0001Ap-KL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874knoekki.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed,  23 Sep 2020 14:36:45 +0200)

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[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > If FSF's legal counsel says that this magical phrase has to be on the
  > Emacs splash screen...  then perhaps it's time for the FSF to get new
  > legal counsel?

It is not "magical".  It is information we want users to know,
so we show it to them.

Part of the reason we want them to know it is legal.  Part of it
is to soread awareness of the FSF and the GNU GPL.  This is important.
So we will keep this information in the splash screen.

-- 
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)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-20  8:35 [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 11:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 12:36   ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 13:34     ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 14:50   ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 17:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 20:33       ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 22:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21  3:50         ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-21  5:47         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21  6:06           ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:09             ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 11:42               ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 15:24                 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 16:40                 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 17:22                   ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:53             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21 12:29               ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 13:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 13:45               ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-20 19:20   ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-20 20:53     ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 19:58   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-21  3:49   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23  3:42   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23  3:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23  8:03       ` Mathias Dahl
2020-09-24  1:31       ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-24  6:17         ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-25  4:39           ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 12:36     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 16:21       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-23 16:36         ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-24  1:32       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-09-24  2:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 13:36         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25  4:38           ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-25 10:04             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:26               ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-26  4:37               ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-26 13:43                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27  2:43                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27  8:54                     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27  9:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27  9:56                         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:10                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:34                             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:50                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 11:24                                 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 11:52                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 13:32                                     ` Jean Louis
2020-09-27 16:08                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28  3:43                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 11:56                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-28 14:02                           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26  8:28             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-26  9:45               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26  9:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 14:34               ` Drew Adams
2020-09-27  2:45               ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27  8:34                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27  8:52                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-27  8:56                   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27  9:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:03                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27 10:42                         ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-27 14:03                           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-28  3:42                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28  6:29                             ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-29  3:32                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 14:23                         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-27 16:20                 ` Stefan Monnier

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