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: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:29:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54B1B97E.9070204@gmail.com> <87fvbhk4ha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B456C8.6010506@gmail.com> <8761cbhvhb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B5AA10.7080606@gmail.com> <54B6F8EF.7020401@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421296233 28352 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2015 04:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jcb62281@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 05:30:29 2015 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 1YBc4h-00013t-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBc4g-0001Rr-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBc3s-0000Bq-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBc3l-00005y-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:29:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBc3l-00005t-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:29:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBc3k-0004d7-V7; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:29:28 -0500 In-reply-to: <54B6F8EF.7020401@gmail.com> (message from Jacob Bachmeyer on Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:17:03 -0600) 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:181276 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. ]]] > Where is the line here? Does having GPL code define a new API mean that > programs using that new API can be considered designed for linking to > that GPL code? Yes, if using that API implies dynamically linking with that GPL-covered code. This is nothing new. It has been our position for decades. > More specifically, if a future version of GCC, buildable as a Guile > extension, offers access to its AST through a Guile API, would nonfree > programs be able to use the GCC API, or would the GPL protections cover > GCC's API? Yes. And the same is the case with GCC's existing API for plug-ins. -- 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.