From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkjf1z3r.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <18822.41538.150077.451125@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18822.52229.644385.706466@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20030.54198.935820.969776@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20031.31400.99411.903245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fwlcnwvg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87hb5rkwak.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y5z1s1b4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313093925 27109 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2011 20:18:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 22:18:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrbi9-0005Dk-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:18:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrbi8-0002sQ-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrbi3-0002sJ-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrbhz-0000EN-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:31 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:47796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qrbhq-0000Cc-Ob; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-14-148.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7BKIHN8032422 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:18:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143148 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > If consider those as part of Emacs, so that the GPL applies, then the > GPL requires inclusion of unidata-gen.el because it's a script for > compilation, and likewise requires UnicodeData.txt because it's the > source they are compiled from. >From a technical point of view, AFAICT there is no reason to prefer either state of affairs, i.e. between treating the Unicode data as something distributed alongside Emacs vs part of Emacs. > Here's an idea. We could make a second tarball with admin/unidata, or > perhaps all of admin, and say that the full Emacs sources consist of > both together. People who redistribute source ought to redistribute > both, but users won't have to download both. This would be an inconvenience to redistributors. Simply including admin/ in the source tarball is just an extra 4 Mb (unzipped), which doesn't seem unreasonable. So I prefer to go that route.