From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Licence of ts-comint
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:40:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo9r545l5.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1dkeTP-0000WC-4N@fencepost.gnu.org
> You've said that "not copyleft" usually implies "don't say free
> software" and "say free software" usually implies "copyleft". Those
> two statements are equivalent.
Almost. Except that I said "promote not copyleft" usually implies
"don't say free software" and "say free software" usually implies
"promote copyleft", so the negation is not quite at the right place to
make one the contrapositive of the other.
> But the converse is not true. There are companies that don't
> particularly care about freedom, and don't say "free software", but do
> release code under the GNU GPL as part of their business model.
Indeed, my statement doesn't intend to cover all cases.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-08-13 10:58 ` Licence of ts-comint Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-08-13 12:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-14 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-13 18:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-13 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-13 23:35 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-14 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-14 20:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-14 20:54 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-15 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-21 20:21 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23 3:51 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 4:36 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 5:36 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23 5:56 ` John Wiegley
2017-08-23 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-23 11:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-23 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-24 10:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-08-23 14:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 17:33 ` John Yates
2017-08-22 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22 20:16 ` John Yates
2017-08-23 0:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-23 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-22 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
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