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Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Including C sources in packaged Emacs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:56:03 -0500

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  > Currently, most (all?) linux distros package Emacs without C sources.

Emacs is not a part of Linux.  Linux is one program, and Emacs is another.
Did you mean GNU/Linux distros?

Unfortunately, we can't control how they package things.
The GNU GPL does require that they distribute the source,
but gives them a lot of flexibility about how they do it.

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