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: Licence of ts-comint Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1502621936.3273210.1071832168.58C017A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503419636 27812 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2017 16:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 18:33:50 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 1dkC7g-0006qV-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:33:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkC7n-0005Mm-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBn1-0005WR-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBn0-0006RN-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBmr-0006LN-77; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBmq-0007zR-I4; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:16 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:21:41 -0700) 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:217687 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. ]]] > 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.