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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>, tylercstrouth@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Emacs for commercial purposes
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:11:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <zh7zoe14.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9io29bu.fsf@roquette.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Giovanni Biscuolo's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:31:49 +0200")

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Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> wrote:
> If you modify Emacs (or any Emacs package) you must comply to the terms of the licence.

> modify

Or distribute.

> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Use_of_licensed_software for general information about freedom of use of GNU GPL licnsed free software

Actually, one might find reading the legal text itself [1] more benefiting than reading many various texts about the text (thankfully, FSF have always tried to keep its licences in English than legalese ;-)

In particular, many simplifications as well as detailed explanations of GNU GPL fail to state prominently the only point one might be really interested in:

| You are not required to accept [the terms of] this License [agreement] in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.

[1] <f1> C-c
    or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15 11:09 Using Emacs for commercial purposes tylercstrouth
2020-07-15 13:28 ` phillip.lord
2020-07-15 13:31 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2020-07-16 12:11   ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-07-16 14:37     ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2020-09-24 13:53   ` Jean Louis
2020-07-15 19:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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