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 01:10:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <07350cee-06f7-223a-d92c-00a7e6df9166@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="12232"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, 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 07:17:44 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 1l4Hfb-000316-Dy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:17:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41132 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4Hfa-0000eO-AV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HZ6-0003iA-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:11:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HZ5-0004qF-Mf; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4HYw-00022M-H8; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:10:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <07350cee-06f7-223a-d92c-00a7e6df9166@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:21:47 +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:263446 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. ]]] > We don't consider the bitmap files in the Emacs distribution to be software. Indeed, pictures are not software. But we treat pictures just like software as regards our ethical criteria for licensing the material in a GNU package. > And yet, they contain the "rules" to produce each individual picture on > the screen. That stretches the meaning of "rules", but we don't need to argue about it; for the topic at hand, it makes no difference. -- 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)