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: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:11:42 -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> <54B8326B.90804@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 1421374343 24762 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2015 02:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:12:23 +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 Fri Jan 16 03:12:19 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 1YBwOY-0002Kj-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:12:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBwOY-0001l0-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBwO1-0001X3-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBwNz-0004Vt-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBwNz-0004Vk-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBwNy-0006T8-8x; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:11:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <54B8326B.90804@gmail.com> (message from Jacob Bachmeyer on Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:34:35 -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:181314 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. ]]] > I just realized that my question was very badly worded, with two > positive alternatives, one good and one bad. Is that the good "yes, the > GPL would cover the API" or the bad "yes, sadly, nonfree programs could > use the API"? Sorry. If I were in less of a hurry, I'd have read the question carefully and written my answer clearly. The situation with Emacs will be the same as it is with GCC now: plug-ins have to be GPL. -- 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.