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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:05:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3ulgi0i.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw5abfhg.fsf@gmx.us>


On 2015-01-22, at 23:46, Rasmus <rasmus@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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-24  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-22 11:33 [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly) Neven
2015-01-22 15:58 ` Xebar Saram
2015-01-22 16:02 ` Rasmus
2015-01-22 20:00   ` Neven
2015-01-22 21:05     ` Melleus
2015-01-22 21:20       ` Neven
2015-01-23  8:47       ` e.fraga
2015-01-22 16:41 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2015-01-22 16:57   ` Scott Randby
2015-01-22 22:02   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-22 22:46     ` Rasmus
2015-01-24  0:05       ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-01-23  4:13     ` Scott Randby
2015-01-23  8:53       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-01-23 13:31         ` Scott Randby
2015-01-23 23:57       ` John Hendy
2015-01-23 19:18     ` Greg Troxel
2015-01-23 19:21       ` Greg Troxel
2015-01-23 23:57       ` Discussion of non-free-as-defined-by-FSF software (was: [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly)) Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23  9:56   ` [ANN] [OT] New Android app (Orgzly) Karl Voit
2015-01-24  0:10     ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-22 21:23 ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-01-23  2:59   ` Mike McLean
2015-01-24  0:15     ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-23  4:34 ` Samuel Wales
2016-10-20 19:28 ` Thomas Koch
2016-10-22  2:46   ` Stefan Huchler

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