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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen |
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Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:47:33 +0200 |
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:04:29 +0200
> Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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> On 11.02.2021 08:04, James Lu wrote:
> > "You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
> > receive it, in any medium, **provided that you conspicuously and
> > appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice**;
> > keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive
> > term"
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> Spacemacs and similar "distributions" actually don't redistribute Emacs
> itself. They're just collections of extensions together with
> instructions for installing them.
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> So I don't think this condition can apply, legally speaking.
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> (IANAL, though.)
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