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Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works

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From: Greg S. Hennessy
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 16:00
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David Kinny writes:
#I haven't got Webster's handy, but the Concise Oxford defines censorship as
#
#   "suppressing whole or parts of books, plays, films, letters, NEWS, etc.
#    on the grounds of OBSCENITY, seditiousness, etc." (emphasis mine)

Well, if you want to play in dueling dictionaries, Websters Seventh
lists it as 
	"An official who reads communications and deletes forbidden
	material. " "To subject to censorship."

Since RMS is a private citizen, rewriting his own work, or the work of
his employees, what he is doing is editing, not censorship.

#You clearly don't, as you have made obvious to the world.

I love you too.



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Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
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