Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009

Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 295

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:33AM 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."

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Re:How does this happen? (Score:2, Funny)

by chrisj_0 ( 825246 ) writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:35AM (#36921910)

Because no one uses Emacs any more ;D

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BURN THE WITCH!! (Score:5, Funny)

by elrous0 ( 869638 ) * writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:36AM (#36921914)

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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Re:The sad thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

by rbrausse ( 1319883 ) writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:38AM (#36921940)

RMS will sue himself?

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Re:BURN THE WITCH!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:44AM (#36922044)

And they compiled me into a newt.

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Fucking Hypocrite Stallman (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:47AM (#36922096)

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

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Re:How does this happen? (Score:4, Funny)

by iceaxe ( 18903 ) writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:50AM (#36922124) Journal

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

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Re:Oh, FFS... (Score:4, Funny)

by geekoid ( 135745 ) writes: <{dadinportland} {at} {yahoo.com}> on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:50AM (#36922126) Homepage Journal

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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You know what to do, RMS (Score:5, Funny)

by AdmiralXyz ( 1378985 ) writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:03PM (#36922332)

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

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Re:Overblown (Score:4, Funny)

by Sponge Bath ( 413667 ) writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:38PM (#36922880)

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

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Re:How does this happen? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:43PM (#36922980)

they're not really intended nor suitable to be read or edited by a human
You mean, like Perl ?

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Re:How does this happen? (Score:2, Funny)

BURN THE WITCH!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:The sad thing is... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:BURN THE WITCH!! (Score:5, Funny)

Fucking Hypocrite Stallman (Score:0, Funny)

Re:How does this happen? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Oh, FFS... (Score:4, Funny)

You know what to do, RMS (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Overblown (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How does this happen? (Score:5, Funny)

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