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floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
> In article <9B7cFB9w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) w
> >But my program does not contain GNU Emacs or any part thereof, either with
> >or without modifications.  It merely requires the user to own a copy of
> >GNU Emacs which it can call, just like NeXT's OS requires the user to own
> >a copy of gcc if he's going to be able to use their software development
> >tools.
> 
> You are making this noise because you can't get a perspective on
> doing
> 
> 	system("/bin/emacs");
> 
> in your program?

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.

> Will your "Truely Free Software Foundation" have a good perspective
> on this type of thing?

Depends what you mean by "a good perspective".


mathew

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