Re: NonGNU ELPA rules regarding nonfree software

[Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>]

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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider 
> ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, 
> ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's 
> example. ]]]
>
>   > The nonfree programs include Finder (the default file 
>   > manager on a 
>   > Mac OS X), Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook.
>
> The place where we state our standards about things like this
> is the node References in the GNU Coding Standards.  How about 
> reading
> that, and thinking about what it says about this case?

Thanks, done.  It looks like this case is not a violation 
according to the standards refrence node 
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html#References> 
because the nonfree programs are well known, people who don't use 
the nonfree programs are not likely to use them because of the 
package, and people who use the nonfree programs can use the free 
program that is the package.

-- 
Best,
Yuchen

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