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Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs |
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Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:56:03 -0500 |
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> Currently, most (all?) linux distros package Emacs without C sources.
Emacs is not a part of Linux. Linux is one program, and Emacs is another.
Did you mean GNU/Linux distros?
Unfortunately, we can't control how they package things.
The GNU GPL does require that they distribute the source,
but gives them a lot of flexibility about how they do it.
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