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: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:59:10 -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> 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="15624"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, bugs@gnu.support, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 07:00:38 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 1l4HP4-0003wV-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:00:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HP3-0000EG-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HNq-0007q0-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:59:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HNo-0000zK-B0; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:59:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HNe-0007aO-L7; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:59:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:51:26 +0200) 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:263439 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. ]]] > > I think they are software, because they could be modified within an > > infinite space of possibilities. > A picture can be modified within an infinite space of possibilities. A > book can be modified. A mathematical equation can be modified. That is true, but you've taken the question I raised for myself out of its context. The real question is, "In the context, is there any doubt that this is a piece of software? If not, what else could it be? I think it is clear that a specification of a data structure, meant to guide a program's operation on that data, is software. It is comparable to a bunch of struct and enum declarations which is how we use C header files to show the structure of other data. It may be true that any changes you make in these schemas would be tightly constrained _if you want them to interoperate with ODF_. The same is true for system header files, as long as you're going to use with GNU libc. The latter must be under a free license, and for the same reasons the former also. -- 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)