Z:gnu-www-ja-funding-art-vs-funding-software--4525e8-The conclusion is that there i/en

The conclusion is that there is no way we could come up with a division of the credit for GNU Emacs and justify it as anything but arbitrary. But Emacs is not a special case; it is a typical example. The same problems would arise for many important free programs, and other free works such as Wikipedia pages.