> ...Gosling's account is false and defamatory, and omits the crucial background fact that the program he sold to Unipress was an imitation of a program Stallman had devoted the last seven years of his life to, …

So, was Gosling's program an imitation or a copy of Stallman's work? I'm unfamiliar with the actual history, but isn't that a relevant distinction in this case?

> ...and the subsequent fact that three months after the initial release of GNU Emacs, Stallman had removed the disputed code.

Is there a you-can-use-it-for-3-months exemption for copied works? Also, why remove it at all if it was an "imitation" of his original work?