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: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:38:06 -0500 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="20488"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 07:40:58 2021 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 1lBB5W-0005De-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:40:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44722 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBB5V-0001TB-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBB2m-0000xO-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:38:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBB2l-00066N-NH; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:38:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lBB2k-0007pT-Cj; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 01:38:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from James Lu on Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:04:31 -0500) 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:264681 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. ]]] > from free software, I propose we exercise section 7.4 of GPLv3 to require > "require preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author > attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed > by works containing it" We cannot alter GPLv3. We could only make a new version, and the amount of hassle that would involve is not worth considering for this. Thanks for the suggestion, though. -- 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)