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From: r...@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman)

As you know, I try in every possible way to cause future software
developments to be free. In particular, I try to put software I
distribute under terms that require all changed versions of them to be
free. This way I hope to remove the temptation to make proprietary
the improvements that people will certainly make in any case.

If you see any possibility of cooperating with me in this matter,
please avoid broadcasting any new Emacs Lisp packages to net.emacs or
info-gnu-emacs or bug-gnu-emacs without a copyright notice. Instead,
tell me about the package so that we can discuss the arrangements for
distributing it as a perpetually-free program like most of GNU Emacs.
Doing this, you keep all your options. Or broadcast it with a
copyright and a copying-permission notice. I can help people design
copying-permission notices that make sense and achieve the effects
they want.

The same goes for any new useful documentation files or any other
programs useful for the GNU project. Please join me to make sure that
all users who receive them receive permission to redistribute them.

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