From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google modules integration Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878w3a1x9s.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <81occ6zdnh.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284362340 29803 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2010 07:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, carsten.dominik@gmail.com, julien@danjou.info, kjambunathan@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 13 09:18:56 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 1Ov3JX-0006w3-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ov3JX-0004Rw-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57660 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ov3JR-0004Rj-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov3JQ-0003mH-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov3JP-0003mB-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov3JY-0001Of-Ao; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:18:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:35:29 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130032 Archived-At: Me neither, but I thought that these were terms imposed on the _developer_ writing an application that makes use of the APIs, not on the people who might use that application. I see no basis for Google to impose any requirements on the author or distributor of a program merely because that program is capable of communicating through the API. If you are writing code to use someone's APIs to access their database, it does not seem an unreasonable expectation that you should first check what terms those APIs and the data are made available under. I don't understand the question very well. Why should we have any expectations about that question? And why does it matter whether we do or not?