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: Dual license the colours of the Modus themes? Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 05:05:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mtfwsir6.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87ee13yzt5.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87ee12depi.fsf@protesilaos.com> 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="26095"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dimech@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Protesilaos Stavrou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 11 11:31:12 2022 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 1noigX-0006aH-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 11:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1noigW-0007so-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 05:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1noiHe-0007q1-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2022 05:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1noiHd-0005Om-RN; Wed, 11 May 2022 05:05:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=DzkcLLSq0G5XeB4TWJzRXBl10dWuRPnZkLSsVNuykoc=; b=HrZv522C6Uml NJMAontqXUi3Vhdi12b3paPW7s3ebM6K9EFijFCWUaj9RQJQnRFFKCi2nJRRO7+nOGO8Dsjvjg/is vE+y2m/fCWa88FC23bU7QrxR4G/cPR0rua+GmggaWdftRt73sQgtyFRuk+1/V6yzfy9gSC0lDYwTD s9uE9MUcGJqXjMk6D7DD4khPg8aOs+nvE5I6yRCfCTr3NpnvUNrKUfMXQ2SEno2jSExXWauPoVHQu vwR7XxShKzloW6Bujm3S6nqaLoAZ1bqnbU/43zKcFi2sVE/8l3jVWI8BZH+ZtdbkoFK39m1li5HDG f9UatE6Nuj4mFYCCBc+Rkg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1noiHd-0001Xc-GU; Wed, 11 May 2022 05:05:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ee12depi.fsf@protesilaos.com> (message from Protesilaos Stavrou on Mon, 09 May 2022 16:21:13 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:289619 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. ]]] > > So if you want, *you* can distribute (on your side) the whole of > > modus-themes under the CC0. There should be no problem with that. > Okay. What I want is to preserve the GPL. Bravo! Usually what's best for the free software movement is to refuse to undermine copyleft. Once in a rare while there is a good reason why allowing a weaker license for a specific set of code will help the movement advance. But we need to subject the idea to careful scrutiny before becoming convinced, and see if a smaller change (less code, or a smaller exception) would suffice to achieve the benefit. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)