From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5948"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 08:04:50 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 1lOxZS-0001Ou-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:04:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42706 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOxZQ-0000yi-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOxYV-0000Zq-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:47673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOxYT-0004ff-P2; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.53]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E0AB.00000000605AE451.00003916; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:03:45 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: James Lu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:266925 Archived-At: * James Lu [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