From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: code signing with foreign function interface? Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:04:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83sk8c2ek4.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267985154 20834 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 18:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 19:05:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoKrF-0000L0-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:05:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoKrE-00050s-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoKr8-00050C-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40713 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoKr7-000503-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoKr6-0005qj-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61771) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoKr6-0005qc-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYX00H00BIN8H00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:04:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.34.234]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYX00FO9BJR9W60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:04:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121711 Archived-At: > From: joakim@verona.se > Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:24:47 +0100 > > The GPL cannot prevent free and non-free code being distributed > together. Therefore a distributor can push GPL non-compliance to an > unknowing user. > > If code signing of dynamic libraries is employed, the end-user can be > made aware he is breaking the intentions of the GPL. Would this be > enough to satisfy the requirements for an Emacs FFI? Forgive me for asking a possibly dumb question (due to my total ignorance on this subject): How will you distinguish system libraries (which are exempt of being under GPL) from the other kind?