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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, jamtlu@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 23:46:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lBVm2-0007P6-Vw@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCjshdgGtznlVwzP@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:25:25 +0300)

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  > Did person request altering of a license or excercising of section
  > 7.4.?

I think I misread it before.  Sorry.

Section 7.4 says it is possible to add to the license of a program
a clause saying to preserve a specific notice.  We could do that,
but I am not sure it is wise.

Let's ask the Spacemacs developers to cooperate.



-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-15  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CANQHGB1NJG8qGt04nor3__K16=+u=_zqJJ=yjQCDFz9+OoMJew@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <YCeuZThlIVeusvk4@protected.rcdrun.com>
2021-02-13 13:38   ` Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <71d61860-06de-58d6-9274-0d63bac1fc87@yandex.ru>
2021-02-13 13:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <E1lBB2k-0007pT-Cj@fencepost.gnu.org>
2021-02-14  9:25   ` Jean Louis
2021-02-15  4:46     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-03-01  7:43       ` Jean Louis

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