From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:01:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFrj31VxD1nd1e5b@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQHGB1NJG8qGt04nor3__K16=+u=_zqJJ=yjQCDFz9+OoMJew@mail.gmail.com>
* James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com> [2021-02-13 00:12]:
> Some distributions of Emacs, such as Spacemacs, replace Emacs' splash
> screen with one that heeds no mention to free software. (Spacemacs includes
> a logo of Spacemacs, a bunch of menu items, and a changelog.)
>
> In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux controversy,
> where a variant of GNU software was called something else and disassociated
> 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"
Maintainer and author of Spacemacs has understood your proposal and
have changed all files to include GPL3 as how it is specified in the
license, included LICENSE file in the distribution and is now changing
the splash screen to include copying conditions.
See:
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/14552
syl20bnr commented 3 hours ago
Should fix #14444
Added the LICENSE file.
Added GPLv3 terms explicitly to each elisp file
Updated the years to 2021
Cherry on the cake, added the GPLv3 logo to the README file:
And wishes to add button on the main screen pointing to copying
conditions.
I wish best for increasing Emacs user number through Spacemacs and We
hope for creation of more free software and better understanding with
help of Spacemacs developers!
Jean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-24 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 6:04 Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen James Lu
2021-02-13 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 10:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 12:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-13 21:49 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-16 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-16 5:33 ` James Lu
2021-02-16 17:38 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-02-16 7:43 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-14 6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-24 7:01 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-03-25 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-26 2:32 ` James Lu
2021-03-26 6:33 ` Pankaj Jangid
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