From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic legal question: Publication of a fix to psgml Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:57:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5d32y8y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <51584E07.8060709@easy-emacs.de> <87r4ivobbb.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <515857CD.8080504@easy-emacs.de> <831uav4kr9.fsf@gnu.org> <51586AF5.1070309@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364756239 7526 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2013 18:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:57:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 31 20:57:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMNRq-0005qR-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:57:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMNRR-0001LN-Lh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMNRF-0001K3-16 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMNRD-0003qk-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMNRC-0003qb-So for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKJ00N00G8N1S00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:57:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKJ00MDPGN5X3B0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:57:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <51586AF5.1070309@easy-emacs.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89847 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:57:25 +0200 > From: Andreas R=F6hler >=20 > please consider the case at stake: a great library like psgml.el, w= hich delivered solutions hardly > found elsewhere, was kept nearly unknown for more than a decade. >=20 > Don't you accept there is a difference between not bundling code an= d not mentioning it? > Not to say: discourage it's use. >=20 > If you might consider the effect already visible in this thread, yo= u will remark the notion of the explicit consentement of authors for = a change or republishing as so=20 > called matter of respect. >=20 > Don't you see the danger which raises for all free software from t= here? > All legal tracts and stances are interpreted in the light of habit. > If a court notices the habit of requesting personal consentements f= or 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.