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Re: VM and the FSF
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: VM and the FSF |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:21:41 -0400 |
%% Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
rs> Our lawyer said we should make exceptions only when absolutely
rs> necessary. We made one exception in Emacs: the MULE code. This
rs> code was very important, and the copyright holder (an arm of the
rs> Japanese government) was legally prohibited from assigning
rs> copyright.
I was not referring to code when discussing exceptions, but rather .el
files contained in the Emacs base distribution.
rs> That is the only exception we have made in the code of Emacs. If
rs> other parts of Emacs 20.5 seem to be not copyright FSF, then we
rs> must have made some kind of mistake. There are various possible
rs> kinds of mistakes it could be. Could you possibly send a bug
rs> report naming the problem files?
I don't have 20.5 anymore, but I'll go back through my mail archives and
see if I can find the examples I quoted when this came up before; it was
over a year ago, I know.
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