Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released

[Richard Stallman]

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  > That would mean the Emacs 25.3 is almost open source.

We do not aim to make our software "open source".
That term stands for a political philosophy that we don't follow.
GNU Emacs is meant to be free (libre, svobodniy) software.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source.  See also https://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.

Emacs 25.3 needs to be released as free software, and that requires
releasing the source code under a proper license.  Isn't that so
already?  Emacs releases are always source code, not binary.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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