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1. Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn

   @bkuhn Any comment? http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/1445252/Emacs-Has-Been-Violating-the-GPL-Since-2009

   Friday, 29-Jul-11 15:48:46 UTC from heybuddy at Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
   • Tekk Has Moved

     @fabsh they made a mistake, it's being fixed immediately.(linking to the mail thread would have been preferable though ;) )

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:07:13 UTC
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     Charles Roth Bradley M. Kuhn

     RD @fabsh @bkuhn Any comment? http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/1445252/Emacs-Has-Been-Violating-the-GPL-Since-2009 --interesting..thoughts?

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:07:42 UTC
   • diablomarcus Bradley M. Kuhn

     @fabsh unless someone requested the code, it could be considered available even if not in package. Is that correct @bkuhn?

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:11:17 UTC
   • Jeff Has Moved

     @fabsh Distributing binaries without source is not a problem. The source needs to be offered. Maybe no one asked for it til now?

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:11:29 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Tekk Has Moved

     @tekk What mail thread? I don't read the fucking Emacs mailing list! Do you think I'm crazy???

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:15:05 UTC
   • diablomarcus Jeff Has Moved

     @gomerx That was my thought as well. Perhaps they actually lost the source however, which might be an issue.

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:17:39 UTC
   • Tekk Has Moved

     @fabsh it was linked in the thread and included rms' response :)

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:29:47 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn GNU's Not Unix , emacs , Free Software Foundation , The GNU General Public License

     As others are saying, !GNU !Emacs developers & !FSF will resolve this !GPL situation quickly, @fabsh. Here's my comment: http://ur1.ca/4tc4q

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:36:12 UTC
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   • Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Thanks. Wanted your take before I comment on this myself. :)

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:44:17 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Nice post, BTW. Thanks for that. Telling everyone about it now. :)

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:48:09 UTC
   • Jeff Has Moved diablomarcus

     @diablomarcus I'm sure they'll do the right thing. At least it made Slashdot happy for a few minutes.

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 16:52:48 UTC
   • Joel Adamson Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Stallman Political Notes

     @bkuhn Most tellingly, @rms seems to have discovered the problem

     Friday, 29-Jul-11 17:30:54 UTC
   • Rui Seabra GNU's Not Unix , The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn I don't consider it, technically, a !gpl violation as the !gnu project is the copyright holder, right?

     Saturday, 30-Jul-11 08:15:36 UTC
   • Rui Seabra Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Stallman Political Notes

     @bkuhn it is my understanding that @rms is more focused on the derived lack of freedom and innocent violations due to it, and rightly so.

     Saturday, 30-Jul-11 08:17:22 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn emacs , Free Software Foundation , Rui Seabra

     @ruiseabra, it's not clear to me if ∃ any © infringement by !FSF itself in !Emacs situation; it depends on who holds © on orig parser source

     Saturday, 30-Jul-11 23:19:16 UTC
   • Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso emacs , Bradley M. Kuhn

     Btw, I should own up. I wrote the Slashdot story, deliberately sensationalised. Because it was hilarious. :-)

     about a year ago
   • Bradley M. Kuhn emacs , Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso

     @jordigh, I wasn't against putting story out there. It's funny;problem is most people were confused b/c they don't understand GPL compliance

     about a year ago