Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I don't see that as a paradox.  The world of Free Software is much
  > larger than the world of GNU projects.  The FSF is advancing the
  > former to encourage "happy sharing", but exercise extra caution with
  > the latter.

That is basically true, but to be entirely correct it should say "SOME
GNU packages".  The "extra caution" applies to GNU packages which are
copyright FSF, and is for the sake of being able to enforce copyleft
in court.  Other GNU packages are copyrighted by their authors.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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