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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <27A9B4EF.4909@tct.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 91 18:35:26 GMT
References: <4607@lib.tmc.edu> <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <1695@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor):
>Chip Salzenberg writes:
>> Our rights to control our own programming are explicitly protected in
>> the few cases that really matter to me: output of GCC/G++ and files
>> edited by Emacs.
>
>Tell me you aren't saying that any files edited by EMACS now have
>the FSF license stuck to them forever?

Let me rephrase:

The GNU Public License does not attempt to require free distribution
of the source code for GCC-compiled programs, nor does it attempt to
require free distribution of files edited by GNU Emacs.

Is that clearer?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "I want to mention that my opinions whether real or not are MY opinions."
             -- the inevitable William "Billy" Steinmetz