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: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <2711c432-bcac-838c-f6ff-885c2e5934bc@gmail.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="5182"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vasilij Schneidermann Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 06:07:32 2021 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 1kx12i-0001Fi-A1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:07:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx12h-0006fz-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0zC-0003E5-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0zB-0005Ez-Bh; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0z7-0006Jo-0P; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Vasilij Schneidermann on Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:55:21 +0100) 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:262571 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. ]]] > One of the listed goals is "Prohibit redistribution and use of Nmap > within proprietary hardware and software products." That goal sounds like it might conflict with the free software definition. I say "might" because I can't tell from just that. Maybe this is ok, maybe not. It would take some thought. What do they mean by "proprietary hardware products"? The meaning is not obvious, so we do not classify "hardware" as free or proprietary. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html.) In any case, it is not their _goals_ that would either satisfy the free software definition or not. Rather, it is their actual _license_ that would make the difference. The goals might help interpret it, or might show what license changes they want to make. Would you like to email me their current license text plus what they say about its goals? Did someone say that they were continuing to adjust their license and what they are using is not final? I think so. Anyway, if repology.org has a general practice of listing only free software, I would not criticize it for having difficulty with an unclear case like this. What matters for judging repology.org is its general policy. Can someone show me that? -- 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)