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Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009

Posted by Soulskill on from the source-of-conflict dept.

Digana writes "Emacs, one of GNU's flagship products and the most famous software creation of Richard Stallman, has been discovered to be violating the GPL since 2009-09-28 by distributing binaries that were missing source. The CEDET package, a set of contributed files for giving certain IDE functionality related to static code analysis, has distributed files generated from bison grammars without distributing the grammar itself. This happened for Emacs versions 23.2 and 23.3, released during late 2009, and has just been discovered."

10 of 295 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How does this happen? by chrisj_0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because no one uses Emacs any more ;D

  2. BURN THE WITCH!! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw them consorting with Lucifer in the fields--with mine own eyes, I did! They was compiling binaries with unreleased source and plotting against FOSS hippies, they was!

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:BURN THE WITCH!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And they compiled me into a newt.

  3. Re:The sad thing is... by rbrausse · · Score: 3, Funny

    RMS will sue himself?

  4. Fucking Hypocrite Stallman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hippies never actually stand for anything. They're all talk.

    Disgusting.

  5. Re:How does this happen? by iceaxe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh crap, I am no one and didn't even know it? No wonder I'm underpaid...

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    WALSTIB!
  6. Re:Oh, FFS... by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sued for what? I can see it now:

    If you win, you get a hug from Stallman. if you lose you get 2 hugs.

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  7. You know what to do, RMS by AdmiralXyz · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing people gave Stallman that katana after the xkcd strip came out, because there's now only one option. Reclaim your honor, sir.

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  8. Re:Overblown by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yo dawg! I hurd you like emacs so I put some source code in your source code so you can compile while you compile!

  9. Re:How does this happen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're not really intended nor suitable to be read or edited by a human

    You mean, like Perl ?