From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:53:26 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad96sldl.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <3097.1063392768@mixed> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063601939 19843 80.91.224.253 (15 Sep 2003 04:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 06:58:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ylRx-00050T-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ylUR-000238-00 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:01:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19ylQN-0004bo-IY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19ylQH-0004ag-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19ylQF-0004a7-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.98.109] (helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19ylMh-0003Xp-Bg; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19ylMc-0008QT-00; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:53:26 +0900 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "12 Sep 2003 22:20:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16397 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16397 >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> And the sad thing about it is that people will tend to read David> the GPL because they would feel insecure about what their David> choices might entail and what they will subject themselves David> to making either. Heh. My bet is that if they're ordinary users, they'll be peeved at being tricked into reading the GPL to decide which button to push, and discovering that it doesn't tell them! when they were planning on ignoring any legal restrictions on use and redistribution in any case. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.