From: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: E-LISP licensing question
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:27:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v1e3jmu.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1UwhkR-0003UR-4q@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Yes. We were discussing Emacs Lisp libraries. You will notice
> that I said "If a library..."
>
> There are people who want to make me look bad, and don't mind if
> the means are dishonest. Perhaps because Microsoft pays them --
> it was caught doing this a couple of months ago -- or perhaps
> they get their kicks from mistreating people.
> Whoever quoted it out of context might be one of them, in which
> case you should put him down as someone to ignore. However,
> that person might be honest and have been misled by others. If
> so, you could perhaps help him see what is happening and stop
> it.
Since I did the out-of-context-quote leading to this, let me
please clarify this non-event briefly. This is what I said on IRC
:
> RMS said: "If a library is under GPLv2 only, we should regard it
> as dead and write a replacement." Looks like a fun project.
I added nothing else on that subject except, on request, a reference
(Date and Message-ID).
Disappointing but there is no Microsoft involved : overinterpretation is
the devil here.
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-10 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 15:35 E-LISP licensing question Geoffrey Teale
2008-04-02 17:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-18 23:49 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-19 3:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-19 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-19 5:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-05-24 19:21 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-25 2:47 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01 3:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 1:31 ` Rachel Agasan
2013-07-09 8:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-09 17:03 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 22:41 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-09 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-09 16:47 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2013-07-09 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-10 8:27 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2013-07-10 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-09 17:06 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-09 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2013-07-10 8:32 ` Andreas Röhler
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