Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!rms@mit-prep From: rms@mit-prep Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Fear and loathing on net.emacs Message-ID: <4421@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 04:14:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4421 Posted: Mon Jun 10 04:14:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 03:23:11 EDT Sender: daemon@mit-eddi.UUCP Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 From: Richard M. Stallman Nobody has any reason to be afraid to use or distribute GNU Emacs. It is well known that I do not believe any software is anyone's property. However, for the GNU project, I decided it was necessary to obey the law. I have refused to look at code I did not have permission to distribute. About 5% of GNU Emacs is close to (though quite a bit changed from) an old version of Gosling Emacs. I am distributing it for Fen Labalme, who received permission from Gosling to distribute it. It is therefore legal for me to do so. To be scrupulously legal, I put statements at the front of the files concerned, describing this situation. I don't see anything I should warn people about--except that Zimmerman is going to try to browbeat them.