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 > Well, at the one end we have  system("/bin/emacs");  which is Allowed.
 > At the other end, we have  link myeditor.o,emacs.o  which is (apparently)
 > Not Allowed.  I'm told that if I want to find out whether my program is
 > Allowed or not, I have to hire expensive lawyers.  That doesn't sound very
 > reasonable or "free" to me.

Sounds reasonable to me.  If you want to hoard software, you have
to buy into the hoarder philosophy wholesale and hire a mess of
lawyers.  On the other hand if you`'re willing to turn your
softweare loose, then you can forget the lawyers and get on with
writing more software.