From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Licence of ts-comint Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:32:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1502621936.3273210.1071832168.58C017A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503489857 12833 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2017 12:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:04:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 23 14:04:11 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 1dkUO3-0002SM-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:03:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkUOA-00072D-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkUNr-0006zI-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkUNi-0008Oz-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from pmta11.teksavvy.com ([76.10.157.34]:24700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkUNi-0008MB-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:03:34 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2FBHACHZp1Z/3uFWxdcGwEBAQMBAQEJA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBg1qFJYVYhHeQM4FwmDaCDIM7AoRDVwECAQEBAQECA2gohRkBBAF5EAsNJxI?= =?us-ascii?q?UGDGKPAiwPyICi0sBAQEHAiaDKoIChlaKZwWgWI8Ahz4ziRAohn+WLliBCjIhC?= =?us-ascii?q?DGFYByCAySLNwEBAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2FBHACHZp1Z/3uFWxdcGwEBAQMBAQEJAQEBg1qFJYVYhHe?= =?us-ascii?q?QM4FwmDaCDIM7AoRDVwECAQEBAQECA2gohRkBBAF5EAsNJxIUGDGKPAiwPyICi?= =?us-ascii?q?0sBAQEHAiaDKoIChlaKZwWgWI8Ahz4ziRAohn+WLliBCjIhCDGFYByCAySLNwE?= =?us-ascii?q?BAQ?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,416,1498536000"; d="scan'208";a="2358570" Original-Received: from unknown (HELO pastel.home) ([23.91.133.123]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2017 07:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EF289622F6; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:32:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Radon Rosborough's message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:36:35 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.10.157.34 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:217721 Archived-At: >> To a first approximation, in my experience, weak licenses are promoted >> by people who don't like to say "free software" (and even less talk >> about software freedom) while people who use the word "free software" or >> "software freedom" will usually promote the GPL. > There are also those people who will argue that weak licenses are > "more free" than the GPL because they allow the licensee more freedom > of use and distribution. Notice that I did not talk about which license is more free (which I find to be a meaningless debate), only about correlation between two different behaviors. Stefan