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: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:19:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201013052736.GE31408@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> <87eelvplvh.fsf@posteo.net> <10bdf4ea-e365-cc3d-ec03-4348946fadbe@yandex.ru> <20201019164242.GH19325@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="1737"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, mve1@runbox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 07:20:55 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 1kUk4t-0000LW-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44702 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUk4s-0005bx-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUk3N-0004He-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUk3N-00007W-AJ; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kUk3J-00021U-6d; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:19:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201019164242.GH19325@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:42:42 +0300) 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:258164 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. ]]] > > Sure, the maintainers of a repo are, in a way, > > administrators. But should such administrators > > be changing source code? Adding other code or > > whatever, to administer, label, treat, etc. the > > code is, at least conceptually, different from > > changing the source code itself. > That is similar to how many GNU/Linux software packages are > maintained, often they are modified before such enter distribution for > final users. > I do not care if package is original, not original, forked or not > forked, modified, what I care is which group of people is making it > trusted and by which principles. That is my view also. Free software means you're allowed to distribute a modified version. There is nothing wrong with making changes. The changes are good, or bad, based on what they say. -- 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)