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, 27 Jan 2021 02:37:58 -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="32155"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 27 08:38:45 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 1l4fPZ-0008CV-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:38:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4fPY-0001xB-2R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:38:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4fOu-0001KH-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4fOt-0002pA-O1; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:38:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4fOo-0008W3-FA; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:37:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:52:46 +0000) 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:263490 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. ]]] > In itself it does nothing. > It is not just a configuration file or data like list of colors or > fonts. I think it is pattern that changes algorithm of software > and thus part of software. It is now clear that you're right. However, if we were to include a list of colors or fonts _in a GNU package_ we would insist that the list be free. -- 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)