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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA rules regarding nonfree software
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:15:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o89x8u11.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im06vteb.fsf@ypei.me> (message from Yuchen Pei on Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:41:00 +1000)

> From: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:41:00 +1000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Could you please describe the situation in more detail?
> > For instance, give the names of two or three of those nonfree 
> > programs
> > and describe how org-mac-link.el interacts with them?
> 
> The nonfree programs include Finder (the default file manager on a 
> Mac OS X), Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook.

Those are integral parts of their operating systems, no?  I don't
think OS components count, otherwise we'd need to say that running on
any proprietary OS means recommending nonfree software.

> > ;; This code allows you to grab either the current selected items, or
> > ;; the frontmost url in various mac appliations, and insert them as
> > ;; hyperlinks into the current org-mode document at point.

FWIW, I see no problem with this: it's a general-purpose feature that
allows communications with any other application using (AFAIU) a
standard protocol.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-16 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-12 13:25 NonGNU ELPA rules regarding nonfree software Yuchen Pei
2021-08-13  3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-16  5:41   ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-16  5:43     ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-18  3:20       ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-18 12:37         ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-19  2:35           ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-16 12:15     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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