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Subject: Re: code signing with foreign function interface?
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    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?

We gave GCC a plug-in interface last year, after developing a method
to make it safer.  So now it is ok to do this in Emacs as well.

I will ask someone to write down the details and put them in the GNU
coding standards.