From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> <87zic9zuof.fsf@bernoul.li> <877ezaajme.fsf@bernoul.li> <87shhw2xuv.fsf@bernoul.li> <87a844cmgx.fsf@ernst> <8760eqbvvi.fsf@ernst> <87shhmn6mh.fsf@ernst> <87inidmr4h.fsf@ernst> <87inibl9kd.fsf@ernst> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501355365 12028 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 19:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mats Lidell Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 21:09:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX72-0002sM-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:09:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX78-0000oQ-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX6w-0000kW-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX6w-0005VR-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX6r-0005P6-G9; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX6r-0001LO-2V; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:09 -0400 In-reply-to: <87inibl9kd.fsf@ernst> (message from Mats Lidell on Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:19:30 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217142 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Richard Stallman writes: > > Where was that package originally posted? > I'm not sure what package you mean. Are you referring to the package that was > forked or the package created for fun? I meant the earlier version, which was later forked. > In the case of the forked package does that really matter where that source > came from if it is not licensed according to the book? It doesn't matter legally, but I'm hoping to better understand the chain of events. This will help for that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.