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Re: Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 23:27:50 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis wrote:

> Maintainers in GNU project never include proprietary
> software in Emacs neither in GNU ELPA, nor non-GNU ELPA on
> GNU servers. They are doing great work. There is no
> referencing to proprietary software, no mentioning of
> proprietary software.
>
> People may use any free software to upgrade their
> proprietary software, and they can create internal
> proprietary software, but does it matter when it is
> internal? As soon as they convey the software to some party
> or publish it, it has to be the GPL3+ compatible. How much
> people use it internally is up to them. All software never
> published could be considered proprietary, but if it was
> never published... it does not even exist for public.
>
> If it was not issued with a compatible free software
> license, then it could be considered that it was issued,
> that it is GPL3+ and it could be taken as free software as
> license was not given to create proprietary
> Emacs modifications.
>
> Emacs package modifies Emacs as editor. Thus any Emacs
> program distributed in public has to be free software
> compatible with GPL3+ license.

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punches in open doors.

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