From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Don't think Emacs package may be proprietary Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 17:03:52 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87a6om1022.fsf@zoho.eu> <871r9x25l8.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27825"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, moasenwood@zoho.eu To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 16:08:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lkomJ-00074C-KR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 16:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56692 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkomI-0004js-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 10:08:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkols-0004fs-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 10:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:51619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkolp-0000QT-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 10:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.35.51]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF01.0000000060AA61BB.00006012; Sun, 23 May 2021 07:07:54 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, moasenwood@zoho.eu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130135 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2021-05-23 16:54]: > I can make an proprietary emacs package without using any free > software. Of course you can make. We talk hypothetically. You can practically make it and in that case it is violation of GPL3+. > I just cannot use code released with a free software license. That I don't understand. > > They cannot sell it, or in any way release to public as license does > > not allows it. > > > > Emacs package modifies Emacs and requires Emacs to run and thus > > creates modified version of Emacs and has to be GPL3+ > > compatible. Emacs package with Emacs editor make a combined > > program. > > My statement is quite different. Having emacs cater to proprietary > users is a poor decision. But people can do what they want. I don't know what means "proprietary users" and to cater for them. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/