Re: E-LISP licensing question

[Nicolas Richard]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes: 
> Yes.   We were discussing Emacs Lisp libraries.  You will notice 
> that I said "If a library..." 
>
> There are people who want to make me look bad, and don't mind if 
> the means are dishonest.  Perhaps because Microsoft pays them -- 
> it was caught doing this a couple of months ago -- or perhaps 
> they get their kicks from mistreating people. 

> Whoever quoted it out of context might be one of them, in which 
> case you should put him down as someone to ignore.  However, 
> that person might be honest and have been misled by others.  If 
> so, you could perhaps help him see what is happening and stop 
> it. 

Since I did the out-of-context-quote leading to this, let me 
please clarify this non-event briefly. This is what I said on IRC 
: 

> RMS said: "If a library is under GPLv2 only, we should regard it 
> as dead and write a replacement." Looks like a fun project.

I added nothing else on that subject except, on request, a reference
(Date and Message-ID).

Disappointing but there is no Microsoft involved : overinterpretation is
the devil here.

--
Nico.