From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:30:32 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537890460 15526 195.159.176.226 (25 Sep 2018 15:47:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:47:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 17:47:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1g4pYl-0003vn-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4pas-0006Mp-AX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:49:46 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:a1c:f213:: with SMTP id s19-v6mr170767wmc.23.1537889436578; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q200-v6no1069791wmd.0!news-out.google.com!z184-v6ni3067wmz.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="4b5dc80019861edc405b90028695c01e"; logging-data="6971"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DuqYg5uUphyQPzuGLdl7X" Cancel-Lock: sha1:y8MJTPz9Rx92Hlk8FcXoKF2G7xY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223884 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118009 Archived-At: In article , microsoft gaofei wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html . You said, some private > software is also free and isn't released to public domain. Can that be free > and closed-source at the same time? "Public domain" means that it's not protected by copyright. Not being public domain is not the same as being closed-source. In particular, the GPL makes use of copyright to make sure that the software remains free. The copyright specifies that you may only copy the program if you agree to the license, which requires you to make source code available. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***