From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking in files with trailing white space
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:31:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zijz9og4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <053170b4-0258-bf23-c20b-236be50c984b@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:23 -0800)
> Cc: acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:23 -0800
>
> > I'm not sure this is relevant here. E.g., we distribute Emacs sources
> > as a compressed archive, not as a set of plain-text files.
>
> That is merely an issue of efficient data transfer. We use a convenient
> format (compressed tarball) that is universally understood to stand for
> a set of source files, and it's OK to do that.
My point is that providing compressed text files in the distribution
doesn't violate the GPL or its spirit. Legal obligations are more
important than efficiency considerations, so if compressing sources
would violate the GPL, we would already be violating it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-14 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-20 12:55 Checking in files with trailing white space Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-20 13:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 13:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-12-11 18:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 22:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-12-12 22:57 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 7:31 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 18:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 22:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-14 7:47 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:15 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 18:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-12-13 18:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-21 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-21 13:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-21 18:09 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-04 20:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 21:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-24 13:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83zijz9og4.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=acm@muc.de \
--cc=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).