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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA rules regarding nonfree software
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 23:20:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mGC8N-0004EU-Mk@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsvavtam.fsf@ypei.me> (message from Yuchen Pei on Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:43:13 +1000)

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  > The nonfree programs include Finder (the default file manager on a 
  > Mac OS X), Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook.

The place where we state our standards about things like this
is the node References in the GNU Coding Standards.  How about reading
that, and thinking about what it says about this case?


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-18  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-12 13:25 NonGNU ELPA rules regarding nonfree software Yuchen Pei
2021-08-13  3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-16  5:41   ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-16  5:43     ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-18  3:20       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-08-18 12:37         ` Yuchen Pei
2021-08-19  2:35           ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-16 12:15     ` Eli Zaretskii

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