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: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:13:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87r2vctasb.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505341012 6903 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 22:16:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rostislav Svoboda Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 00:15:25 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 1drtSc-0002k5-KX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtSj-0002f0-Uo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtRj-0002YF-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtRe-0004re-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drtRO-0004M2-3N; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1drtRN-0000wH-F0; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:13:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Rostislav Svoboda on Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:10:00 +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:218236 [[[ 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. ]]] > That would mean the Emacs 25.3 is almost open source. We do not aim to make our software "open source". That term stands for a political philosophy that we don't follow. GNU Emacs is meant to be free (libre, svobodniy) software. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for more explanation of the difference between free software and open source. See also https://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point. Emacs 25.3 needs to be released as free software, and that requires releasing the source code under a proper license. Isn't that so already? Emacs releases are always source code, not binary. -- 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.