From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general Subject: Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:35:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1w5tbi93.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <200803290100.m2T10Mgm007655@localhost.localdomain> <85iqz5rgvw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86y781wpdt.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206808578 9811 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2008 16:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bazaar@lists.canonical.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 17:36:49 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jfe2x-0007GQ-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:36:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe2L-0003yO-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe2H-0003y9-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe2E-0003xs-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe2E-0003xo-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jfe2E-0004Mn-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfe29-0001S8-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:35:57 +0000 Original-Received: from 112.red-81-38-8.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([81.38.8.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:35:57 +0000 Original-Received: from ofv by 112.red-81-38-8.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:35:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 112.red-81-38-8.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VrKhe58aiEwhpyQbGZwtT9CSuts= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:93814 gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general:39522 Archived-At: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > David> Uh, an arbitrary political decision wiping away all technical arguments > David> is what started free software in the first place. > > Only for the revisionists. Free software existed long before the GNU Project. > > The GNU Project's contribution was a legally enforcable license to ensure > share-and-share-alike for authors who chose to use the legal system to enforce > their politics. This was definitely an important contribution at the time, > but it wasn't the thing that "started free software". Free Software, ("Free" in the GNU sense), is nothing without a legally enforceable license that protects its freedom. Maybe you are talking about what later was known as Open Source? (BSD license, etc). [snip] -- Oscar