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From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>, tylercstrouth@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Emacs for commercial purposes
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:37:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eepb1q76.fsf@roquette.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <zh7zoe14.dag@gnui.org>

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Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> writes:

> Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> wrote>> If you modify Emacs (or any Emacs package) you must comply to the terms of the licence.
>
>> modify
>
> Or distribute.

Ooops: sorry!

[...]

> Actually, one might find reading the legal text itself [1] more
> benefiting than reading many various texts about the text (thankfully,
> FSF have always tried to keep its licences in English than legalese
> ;-)
>
> In particular, many simplifications as well as detailed explanations
> of GNU GPL fail to state prominently the only point one might be
> really interested in:
>
> | You are not required to accept [the terms of] this License
> | [agreement] in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.

+100 :thumbup:

Thanks, Gio'

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15 11:09 Using Emacs for commercial purposes tylercstrouth
2020-07-15 13:28 ` phillip.lord
2020-07-15 13:31 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2020-07-16 12:11   ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-16 14:37     ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2020-09-24 13:53   ` Jean Louis
2020-07-15 19:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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