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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, jostein@kjonigsen.net,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Licence of ts-comint
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dkBmq-0007zR-I4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y3qcu0x6.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:21:41 -0700)

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  >  In my own company, for example, we can never use GPL libraries,
  > because they carry too much legal burden to be worth it.

Is this because the company makes nonfree programs?

We release a library under the GPL when we want to prevent it from
being used in nonfree programs.  When we decide it is advantageous to
allow use of a certain library in nonfree programs, we release it
under the Leser GPL or something like the libGCC exception.

-- 
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.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <C7FBB42B-2311-44F5-B940-22426AC1B2B7@gmail.com>
2017-08-13 10:58 ` Licence of ts-comint Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-08-13 12:15   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-14  1:51     ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-13 18:16   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-13 22:01   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-13 23:35     ` John Wiegley
2017-08-14  2:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-14 20:48       ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-14 20:54         ` John Wiegley
2017-08-15  2:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 19:03   ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-21 20:21     ` John Wiegley
2017-08-22 16:12       ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12       ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33         ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23  3:51           ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23  4:36             ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23  5:36               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23  5:56                 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23 22:50                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-23 11:32               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 22:50             ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-24 10:40               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 14:18           ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33         ` John Yates
2017-08-22 17:54           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22 20:16             ` John Yates
2017-08-23  0:30               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23 22:48               ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12       ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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