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.tangents Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:25:25 +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="15955"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, James Lu To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 10:26:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1lBDfp-00042y-Pm for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:26:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50536 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBDfo-0003ox-AB for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBDfd-0003oe-Rk for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:51003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBDfb-00081H-Ic; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.47]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E078.000000006028ECBC.00006975; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 02:26:19 -0700 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: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:599 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman [2021-02-14 09:38]: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > 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" > > We cannot alter GPLv3. We could only make a new version, and the amount of > hassle that would involve is not worth considering for this. > > Thanks for the suggestion, though. Did person request altering of a license or excercising of section 7.4.? I think person requested to excercise the section, not to alter the license, due to violation of GPL. I think it is quite valid request as Spacemacs is very dependent of Emacs and if it is hides legal notices and references to the license than Emacs protection has to kick in. But I have not verified if it really does so, I will do soon. Jean