From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MELPA issues - Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:12:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201011120840.GC2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201011125031.GC6784@odonien.localdomain> <20201012050418.GZ2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201013052736.GE31408@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> <20201016163345.GD3216@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201017095918.0932fe2e@argon> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="601"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bugs@gnu.support Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 06:13:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kU04G-000AcD-Dj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 06:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51658 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU04F-0008Tx-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU03I-0007ar-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38167) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU03I-0007xD-BP; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kU03C-0000GM-PJ; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:12:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201017095918.0932fe2e@argon> (message from Marcel Ventosa on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:59:18 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257989 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. ]]] > > babel - that uses non-free Babelfish translations (if I am mistaken > > tell me) > > > > calfw-gcal - to edit Google calendar When you say that those things are non-free, what precisely does that mean? It might be a misunderstanding, because a service is neither free nor proprietary. Do these packages run any nonfree software or use some nonfree collection of data? Or are you referring to the fact that they send commands to a service? See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)