Re: xemacs wiki
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:37:55 +0900 > >> > >> sorry, i am writing more out of frustration than anything else. > >> the fact that we have to worry so much about licensing issues > >> in free software -- and that they are clearly creating serious > >> impediments -- just sucks. > > Eli> That's true, but some will say that it's not the license that > Eli> sucks, it's the world out there that forces us to worry about > Eli> these nasty details. > > One, at least, of those is a hypocrite: rms. Stephen, your outburst of enmity is at least misdirected: I didn't mean RMS when I wrote that sentence (AFAIK, RMS does NOT think the details of the license are ``nasty''). In an ideal world, freedom would be an understandable right and the default in every human endeavour. That this is not so, is the primary reason we need licenses and lawyers in the first place. That's what I meant when I wrote the text you obviously so grossly misunderstood.