Legal questions about some GNU Emacs files
Hi,
According to Dylan Thurston (see #154043), some files shipped
with GNU Emacs could be considered as non-free.
One of them is /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/LINUX-GNU.
The problem seem to come from the footer which mentions:
Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted
without royalty as long as this notice is preserved.
Also in /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/WHY-FREE
Copyright 1994 Richard Stallman
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted
without royalty as long as this notice is preserved;
alteration is not permitted.
What do you people think of this?
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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