bug#50446: Emacs FAQ entry "What is the real legal meaning of the GNU copyleft?" still relevant?

[Stefan Kangas]

Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: rms@gnu.org

Is the below entry in the Emacs FAQ still relevant?  These days, we
have had several copyright infringement case involving the GPL.  Could
we just delete the entry in the FAQ?

2.1 What is the real legal meaning of the GNU copyleft?
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The real legal meaning of the GNU General Public License (copyleft) will
only be known if and when a judge rules on its validity and scope.
There has never been a copyright infringement case involving the GPL to
set any precedents.  Although legal actions have been brought against
companies for violating the terms of the GPL, so far all have been
settled out of court (in favor of the plaintiffs).  Please take any
discussion regarding this issue to the gnu-misc-discuss mailing list
(https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss), which was
created to hold the extensive flame wars on the subject.

   RMS writes:

     The legal meaning of the GNU copyleft is less important than the
     spirit, which is that Emacs is a free software project and that
     work pertaining to Emacs should also be free software.  “Free”
     means that all users have the freedom to study, share, change and
     improve Emacs.  To make sure everyone has this freedom, pass along
     source code when you distribute any version of Emacs or a related
     program, and give the recipients the same freedom that you enjoyed.