From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
"Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Lawyer's evaluation
Date: 25 Sep 2003 14:42:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x53celhwe0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A2Usy-0004MT-Bv@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I like this version, overall.
>
> What about combining things like this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Emacs is Free Software, developed by the GNU project, and protected
> by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> Emacs is released under the General Public License (GPL) which states
> and protects additional rights that you possess, the rights that
> constitute true software freedom and ensure that GNU Emacs is, and
> always will be, truly free software.
> ...
I'd remove "true" and "truly" here, probably a matter of taste. It
implies that other people may be liars when using this term. Also,
there are some other forms of free software which are not "false free
software", but rather less protected against unfree versions.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 22:44 Lawyer's evaluation Richard Stallman
2003-09-18 23:16 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-19 13:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-22 2:02 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-24 5:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-25 12:05 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-24 9:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-09-24 10:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-24 12:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-09-24 14:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-25 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 12:42 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-09-26 9:53 ` Richard Stallman
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