On 2015-01-22, at 23:46, Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> wrote: > Fine with me! > > Neven, whom I have exchange a couple of private emails with, is free to > distribute his software as he see fit. What I explicitly quoted as being > uncomfortable was the association between his product with *org-mode*. > Note, the tag-line on Neven's site was something like "org-mode for > Android" up until this discussion.
Did not know that; sorry for not doing my homework. Of course, calling this "org-mode for Android" or similarly *is* unacceptable, for obvious reasons. > I'm sure everybody is excited that his program is working with the *org > format*! Apparently, not everybody. But not everybody has to, of course. >> Then others come and say some, ekhm, not-extremely-nice things to >> someone who was definitely not trolling or anything like this. > > We should strive to keep the org-list friendly and civilized. That's what I'm saying (see also my response to the Greg's email). >> Let us further assume that he will sell his book in bookstores (it might >> be in ebook form, with or without DRM, or in paper form - never mind, I >> do not know the exact details). Would he be prohibited from mentioning >> his project (which clearly involves a non-free piece of *software*, >> i.e., the LaTeX source file, and promotes the *result* of executing this >> piece of code) on Emacs mailing list? I am very interested in a serious >> answer, and (if it happens to be "no") in explanation how and why the >> situation would be different. > > First, I don't have strong opinions on this. However, as I recall there's > a passage on articles vs software in Free as in Freedom 2.0: > > http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-as-in-freedom-2/ TL;DR, sorry - it is several hundred pages long, and I have a huge backlog of books (technical, non-fiction and fiction). I might add this to the list. > —Rasmus Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University
