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: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <53064BD0.7070009@yandex.ru> <87ha7tr5bo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppmhecd8.fsf@yandex.ru> <87y50z90pd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87txbn8r6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8338j717oe.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjlf6tdx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83sir7yue7.fsf@gnu.org> <8761o3dlak.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83bnxuzyl4.fsf@gnu.org> <871tyqes5q.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87a9ddg7o8.fsf@engster.org> <87d2i9ee8t.fsf@engster.org> <874n3ke1qn.fsf@engster.org> <87vbvzcjv9.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393878942 29314 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2014 20:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 20:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 21:35:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaZ-0003aU-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:35:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaZ-0007Mr-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaU-0007Iu-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaU-0004Tp-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaT-0004Tl-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKZaS-0003RQ-AE; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:35:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vbvzcjv9.fsf@engster.org> (message from David Engster on Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:55:22 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:170103 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] But by the same reasoning you are applying to clang/LLVM, Emacs' must not support any feature from Subversion (which is Apache-licensed) unless the same feature is present You're making the tacit basic assumption that the right policy is a function only of the _structure_ of a situation. That's not the way we make these decisions. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.