Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!labrea!kestrel!king From: king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Backup files and auto-deletion Message-ID: <16357@kestrel.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 12:29:40 EST Article-I.D.: kestrel.16357 Posted: Mon Jan 12 12:29:40 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 01:05:41 EST References: <8701061806.AA05139@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> <357@mipos3.UUCP> Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 57 In-reply-to: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP's message of 7 Jan 87 16:49:05 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.32.5 of Fri Dec 26 1986 on kestrel (berkeley-unix) In article <357@mipos3.UUCP> pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes: Path: kestrel!labrea!decwrl!sun!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!pinkas From: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Date: 7 Jan 87 16:49:05 GMT References: <8701061806.AA05139@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 48 Posted: Wed Jan 7 08:49:05 1987 This message is directed to those that have been complaining about the behavior of backup files in GNU Emacs. . . . Just remeber, Mr. Stallman does have a copyright on GNU Emacs, and it would be within his rights to charge licensing fees in the future. . . . Neither is true. The Free Software Foundation, not Stallman, owns the copyrights. I wrote various improvements to emacs, including the numbered version system. [please don't flame me -- I anticipated disk space problems and made it optional, by file, in two ways]. Free Software Foundation and I have contracts in which FSF promises never to charge a royalty for any of my various enhancements. Presumably other contributers have similar contracts, to an extent that only if Mr. Stallman were to rewrite EMACS or retreat to some horrible early version could he start charging fees. All contributers would have to allow FSF [NOT rms] to charge a fee before FSF could do so. Also note that I have my copy, as do hundreds if not thousands of other sites, and if FSF started to charge a fee I and the others could, and many probably would, continue to redistribute without a fee. RMS could tire of the project tomorrow. If that happens I suspect bugs will continue to get fixed [I would fix some] although finding an "official" home for the "standard" sources would be a bit of a problem. -Israel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com -dick