From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jamtlu@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:47:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pn14cc5m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71d61860-06de-58d6-9274-0d63bac1fc87@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:04:29 +0200)
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:04:29 +0200
> Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>
> On 11.02.2021 08:04, James Lu wrote:
> > "You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
> > receive it, in any medium, **provided that you conspicuously and
> > appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice**;
> > keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive
> > term"
>
> Spacemacs and similar "distributions" actually don't redistribute Emacs
> itself. They're just collections of extensions together with
> instructions for installing them.
>
> So I don't think this condition can apply, legally speaking.
>
> (IANAL, though.)
Please continue this discussion on emacs-tangents (replies redirected
there).
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2021-02-13 13:38 ` Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Eli Zaretskii
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2021-02-13 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2021-02-14 9:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-15 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
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