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> 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.)

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