From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:32:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dXfim-0001vC-Ag@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh8y9r6u6.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:42:11 -0400)
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> Enforced freedom? nobody there was obligated to benefit from freedom.
> What was enforced was the obligation for Cisco to transfer to their
> clients the freedom they decided to enjoy.
You stated that very well.
The purpose of copyleft is to defend freedom for all users of our
software. To defend their freedom requires preventing middlemen
(Cisco in that case) from stripping off the freedom when they
redistribute the software to others.
In other words, when we distribute Emacs to A,
and A redistributes Emacs to B, C and D, copyleft protects
the freedom of B, C and D by requiring
A to pass along Emacs to them with the full four freedoms.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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2017-07-13 17:16 ` Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-13 18:06 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:25 ` John Yates
2017-07-13 18:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:36 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 18:48 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:08 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 19:11 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-13 19:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-14 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:31 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 19:56 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 20:07 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-14 10:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-14 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-18 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 7:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-18 17:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-07-19 9:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-19 11:56 ` tomas
2017-07-19 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
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