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, 19 Jan 2015 22:17:52 -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> <54B889CC.9030401@gmail.com> <878uh3dquk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54B9BA40.2070104@gmail.com> <87d26ddi4z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87mw5g9k6k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421723897 2780 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2015 03:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jcb62281@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 04:18:16 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 1YDPKY-0003xB-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:18:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDPKY-0008BF-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDPKK-0008Az-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDPKD-0006PI-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDPKD-0006P1-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDPKC-0004ef-GF; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:17:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mw5g9k6k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:34:43 +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:181459 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. ]]] > At any rate, this is a strawman argument. I did not claim that we > cannot _merge_ separate free software applications without the danger of > this enabling _merging_ them with non-free software. > The topic was _interoperation_ between _separate_ free software > applications. I have not had time to read that long discussion. I did have time to correct a simple, self-contaied, but incorrect, statement about the requirements of the GPL and plugins. -- 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.