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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Licence of ts-comint


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Licence of ts-comint
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:40:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> You've said that "not copyleft" usually implies "don't say free
> software" and "say free software" usually implies "copyleft".  Those
> two statements are equivalent.

Almost.  Except that I said "promote not copyleft" usually implies
"don't say free software" and "say free software" usually implies
"promote copyleft", so the negation is not quite at the right place to
make one the contrapositive of the other.

> But the converse is not true.  There are companies that don't
> particularly care about freedom, and don't say "free software", but do
> release code under the GNU GPL as part of their business model.

Indeed, my statement doesn't intend to cover all cases.


        Stefan




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