From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:53:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83zh0y2jtu.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20951"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 24 20:54:02 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l3lST-0005Kh-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:54:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45442 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3lSS-00030H-WF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3lRc-0002aH-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3lRb-0001Wx-Iz; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:53:07 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2666 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l3lRR-0008Fs-RB; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:52:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:12:17 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263349 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:12:17 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , > arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru > > > Only a special class of derivative works can be distributed freely, > > and it sounds like some of these would fall under "fair use" anyway. > > Certainly this isn't enough to qualify as a free software license? > > > > However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > including by removing the copyright notice or references to OASIS, > > except as needed for the purpose of developing any document or > > deliverable produced by an OASIS Technical Committee (in which case > > the rules applicable to copyrights, as set forth in the OASIS IPR > > Policy, must be followed) or as required to translate it into > > languages other than English. > > Then it is not free. Forgive me for a possibly naïve question, but why on earth would you want to modify a schema? It's the same as modifying a physical law. Would you say that E = mc² is "non-free" because it cannot be meaningfully modified at will?