From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:51:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85br4rxd3o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1Dx1IW-0004QfC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:39:04 +0000 (UTC)")
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote,
>
> XEmacs, after all, does meet the criteria of free software.
>
> Actually and unfortunately, we do not know whether it does.
>
> Certainly, the main authors intend that. But they have not
> collected the legal paperwork necessary to prove it to a hostile
> court.
It shares this property with a large body of free software. Not
everybody is as careful as the FSF with regard to copyright
assignments.
Following your way of reasoning, Linux is a non-free operating system
kernel, and we should remove all references to GNU/Linux from Emacs.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-21 21:49 Strange change in bytecmop.el Stefan Monnier
2005-07-21 23:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-22 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-22 22:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-23 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-24 14:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-24 16:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 1:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-25 1:59 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 11:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-07-25 12:51 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-25 16:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-25 17:21 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 8:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-26 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 10:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-26 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 12:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-28 22:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-24 14:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
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