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: Including ESS with Emacs Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:40:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875zwlfeme.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543196376 19605 195.159.176.226 (26 Nov 2018 01:39:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 02:39:32 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 1gR5s3-0004zT-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:39:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gR5u9-0007fH-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gR5tV-0007fC-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gR5tU-00069x-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gR5tS-00066i-7N; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gR5tS-0002bb-3h; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:40:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:45:49 -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:231378 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. ]]] Stefan has it right. > Finally, there will probably be a few hold outs who contributed > a non-trivial amount of code which is still present but whose copyright > paperwork we can't get. At that point, we have to take a yet deeper > look at what to do with it: rewrite the code, drop it altogether, or > move it to a separate package. At that point, how about telling me about the situation and I will see what I can do. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)