Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!spider!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 00:19:20 GMT References: <1990Jul18.211712.27198@ico.isc.com> <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <2136@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au> <1990Jul19.160027.160@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU's message of 19 Jul 90 16:00:27 GMT In article <1990Jul19.160027.160@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy) writes: =}Well, if you want to play in dueling dictionaries, Websters Seventh =}lists it as =} "An official who reads communications and deletes forbidden =} material. " "To subject to censorship." =} =}Since RMS is a private citizen, rewriting his own work, or the work of =}his employees, what he is doing is editing, not censorship. But you missed the importance of the second definition (which is the one that applies in this case). I don't think Webster's would leave you hanging on this one, so try looking up 'censorship' and you'll hopefully find something similar to what the previous poster found. If you only find "see censor" then you need a new dictionary because that ones jerking you around in circles... -- --harkcom@potato.pa.yokogawa.co.jp