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: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:24:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517513825 23155 195.159.176.226 (1 Feb 2018 19:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, georgedp@orbitalimpact.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 01 20:37:01 2018 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 1ehKfM-0005b0-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:37:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehKhN-0005oM-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehKcJ-0003TR-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehKbF-0007nH-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:33:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehKTJ-00084b-Bb; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehKTI-0006bw-UQ; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:24:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:06:48 -0500) 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:222366 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. ]]] > Also, I am legally under-age to sign any such copyright waivers. So I > couldn't do it even if I wanted to. Another reason that this is a > fruitless policy. This policy gives us (1) confidence we have the right to put the code into Emacs, and (2) a firm basis for enforcing the GPL. It is sometimes inconvenient, but it is hardly fruitless. On the contrary, it is very important. If you are too young to sign, you could ask your parents to sign on your behalf. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.