From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The copyright issue (Was: Key bindings proposal) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:39:54 +0100 Message-ID: <19547.55402.208000.241757@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <19546.32875.515000.117266@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281087635 14153 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 09:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 11:40:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhJPe-0004go-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhJPe-0004DB-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53523 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhJPP-00046n-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhJPG-0004l3-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from sun60.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.137]:46436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhJPG-0004jh-86; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun60.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OhJPC-00053a-N0; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:39:58 +0100 Original-Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhJPC-000762-D8; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:39:58 +0100 Original-Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1OhJPC-0005tK-FI; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:39:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.92a under 23.2.1 [EmacsW32 Version 1.58 2010-08-02] (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128369 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > It is not that we can't -- it is that we won't. Our goal is to > eliminate nonfree software, not enhance it. Ok, I understand the revolutionary aspect of the project (which I might not have fully understood before). But there are two further questions: - What is the best way to live in the mixed economy until the revolution succeeds? If I understand correctly, Aquamacs *is* free software, but its level of cooperation with proprietary software might be different from Gnu's. - The copyright problem also seems to block Gnu from absorbing, or even partrnering with, other fully free software (with no question of any nonfree software). I have in mind all the stuff on nongnu.org. Your statement above isn't addressing that issue. Cheers, Uday