From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Flymake support for C/C++ Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi8wmmhw.fsf@gmail.com> <83tvz2i2fv.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2u6i0ws.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuaivyeg.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508714330 28472 195.159.176.226 (22 Oct 2017 23:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 23:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, kerolasa@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 01:18:46 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PVy-00067k-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PW4-0000ex-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PVq-0000eh-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PVp-0002tE-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46365) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PVL-0002RW-7L; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e6PVK-0006kU-Ko; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:18:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Reuben Thomas on Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:38:54 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219687 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. ]]] > > > We use various non-FSF-copyright C libraries. We don't ship their > > sources, > > > > To "use" a library has many possible meanings. > > Some of them are ok, some would violate our principles or our license. > > Could you explain concretely? > > > ​I'm talking about the various library dependencies of Emacs.​ I think you are talking about linking Emacs with nonfree libraries that are part of the operating system it is being compiled for. Right? That's a special case, permitted by the system library exception in GPL version 3. We don't distribute these libraries at all, neither sources nor binaries. Emacs uses them because they are standardly present on the target platform. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.