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Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:51:55 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote, 
>
>    XEmacs, after all, does meet the criteria of free software.
>
> Actually and unfortunately, we do not know whether it does.
>
> Certainly, the main authors intend that.  But they have not
> collected the legal paperwork necessary to prove it to a hostile
> court.

It shares this property with a large body of free software.  Not
everybody is as careful as the FSF with regard to copyright
assignments.

Following your way of reasoning, Linux is a non-free operating system
kernel, and we should remove all references to GNU/Linux from Emacs.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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