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: A response to RMS (was Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517863015 2674 195.159.176.226 (5 Feb 2018 20:36:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 20:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 05 21:36:50 2018 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 1einV2-0007JW-KA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:36:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einX3-0008TP-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVZ-0008PO-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVY-0000BL-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVR-0008Op-Vl; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1einVR-0000fN-DO; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Mon, 05 Feb 2018 04:17:52 -0500) 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:222561 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. ]]] > "You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them > privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they > exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to > notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way." > ( from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) All our software releaes give you this; they give this to the public at large. > According to my understanding of the FSF's copyright policy, I have to > notify the FSF when I want to distribute my changes because they're no > longer mine; they're theirs. You don't have to notify the FSF to redistribute our software releases under the GPL. The unlimited nonexclusive license in the assignment contracts concerns using that code in other ways, not necessarily in accord with the GPL. Some of our assignment contracts say that the author has to explicitly activate the nonexclusive license. Others say that the nonexclusive license starts right away. If the author prefers the latter form, we always use it. You seem to be bending over backwards to put us in the wrong. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.