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
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Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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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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