Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > RMS could use his 'moral rights' to prevent someone from > > distributing a version of Emacs which could read and write Microsoft > > Word files (file format being reverse-engineered). > > No he can't. His placing Emacs under a free license, aside from his > numerous writings about software freedom, clearly imply that his works > have no intrinsic artistic character that could possibly be violated > by any third-party modification.
Except the French law says that he cannot make such a declaration.