Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 295
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."
Re:How does this happen? (Score:2, Funny)
BURN THE WITCH!! (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!
Re:The sad thing is... (Score:4, Funny)
RMS will sue himself?
Re:BURN THE WITCH!! (Score:5, Funny)
And they compiled me into a newt.
Fucking Hypocrite Stallman (Score:0, Funny)
Hippies never actually stand for anything. They're all talk.
Disgusting.
Re:How does this happen? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh crap, I am no one and didn't even know it? No wonder I'm underpaid...
Re:Oh, FFS... (Score:4, 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.
You know what to do, RMS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Overblown (Score:4, 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!
Re:How does this happen? (Score:5, Funny)
they're not really intended nor suitable to be read or edited by a human
You mean, like Perl ?