Re: xemacs wiki

"Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.design
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: "Ben Wing" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:32:08 -0700
> >
> > Not in principle: the GPL itself imposes certain restrictions on you:
> > you are NOT free to distribute the sources of any derivative work.
> 
> ???  i don't understand this at all.

Obviously, I blew it: it should have been "... you are NOT free to
NOT distribute the sources...".

> [ok, slightly off topic]

I don't think arguing about this will be a useful investment of our
time.  The GPL is here to stay, and we all are more or less
comfortable with it; we even use it as the de-facto standard of a
license for Free Software.  Why is it useful to have a long
philosphical discussion about alternative ways?
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