Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:57:25 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> 
> please consider the case at stake: a great library like psgml.el, which delivered solutions hardly
> found elsewhere, was kept nearly unknown for more than a decade.
> 
> Don't you accept there is a difference between not bundling code and not mentioning it?
> Not to say: discourage it's use.
> 
> If you might consider the effect already visible in this thread, you will remark the notion of the explicit consentement of authors for a change or republishing as so 
> called matter of respect.
> 
> Don't you see the danger which raises for all free software from  there?
> All legal tracts and stances are interpreted in the light of habit.
> If a court notices the habit of requesting personal consentements for otherwise GPLed code changes as a need,
> the story of free software might be over.

It doesn't matter what I think on this matter.  I'm saying that
attacking the FSF on one of the technical GNU forums is rude and
unethical.  There are specialized forums for this kind of discussions,
please take this subject there.