From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, jamtlu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Requesting a paid version of Emacs
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:24:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lGyS0-0005zv-FN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2blc3n2mv.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (message from Matt Armstrong on Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:23:04 -0800)
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> For example, there is an iPhone app called MobileOrg
> (https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg), released under the GPL, that
> works with this protocol. It supports file synchronization over WebDAV,
> Dropbox, and Apple iCloud.
This is a borderline ethical case: the source code of that application
is free, but its executable is not free in a practical sense,
since the iMonster operating system restricts the installation
of modified versions.
Could someone ask the maintainer of that manual to talk with me about
how to handle this case?
--
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-02 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-24 15:48 Requesting a paid version of Emacs James Lu
2021-02-24 16:14 ` James Lu
2021-02-26 6:31 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-26 9:06 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-28 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 0:23 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-02 6:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-02-24 16:30 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-02-25 4:53 ` Ag Ibragimov
2021-03-01 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
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