Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Yet another question on the GNU license ... Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 88 02:12:09 GMT References: <8808291950.AA20620@nav.icst.nbs.gov> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 > To what extent are students obligated to share homework written > with the GNU emacs editor? I don't have a copy of the FSF license You have made two mistakes about the license. (1) nothing about Gnu imposes any condition on text edited by Gnu Emacs. The discussion was all about binary images loaded with the g++ libraries. They are a special problem because they actually include code supply by FSF. When you edit a file with Gnu Emacs, you do not cause it to include any FSF code. (2) Even if you did something that caused your code to have to follow the FSF policies (e.g. you created code that was based on FSF code), those restrictions do not require you to distribute your code. They specify things you must do if you redistribute or publish your code. I do have a copy of the FSF license. Why are we discussing a license that you haven't bothered to look at?