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: Contradictiory directions Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20211211035614.15517.53830@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20211211035616.984DD20A0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87ee6j4ty4.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735mz4o70.fsf@yahoo.com> <83k0gbr0dm.fsf@gnu.org> <87y24r33bn.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ilvu1ldh.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a6h5tap6.fsf@gnus.org> <87tufbu7jg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87y24nr6nk.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf0ntz0t.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wnk6mjlm.fsf@gnus.org> <877dc6tjz0.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <871r2e5g4u.fsf@telefonica.net> <87o85iqi7u.fsf@yahoo.com> <87tufa40r0.fsf@telefonica.net> 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="37319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 05:44:06 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 1mxicg-0009Pr-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:44:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37168 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxice-0006s9-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZS-0007EW-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48442 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZR-0005ZI-QL; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:45 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=7YgpDbpYKcKyvSlqZfA0WjCctzhgbOjDYWGs/e61G+E=; b=hov95mXG0Hjg yM3tFUTLkV2bmgNypYuPEqJhaBmNR7NzOnpTQTiaiUDq+2Ld7bzkXkt6dCgCqcuYFPPj8uxaIfT8y jlHtxSiabn0n8LIDYmT+NPXtk9tPuqOYZWpukz9gzeeKMJIVWZYAWZLQhEw5RKhiSFKpqf3HaHn+p PgNLmqeie7HXzQvutQA0BXpzCHR9MV2voiBU6ob3J4dIBjB4y1OdmtNbkKa7bmedD9FUmwCTCaBQC 1pHXSzaTGdIVBaZ+zPyPq46ZzEcksBPKdfInsCGCHJXo+UtpvksbDxVCOEJJUhATDMmAu7DpjBOjx TJlxvC2xnRQ+Rs9mLy1DaA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZR-0003GL-Sg; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87tufa40r0.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes on Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:32:19 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:282090 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. ]]] > > > >> Propietary modules can define any symbol, so the > >> "this_module_is_fine_with_gnus" or whatever trick is used on Emacs and > >> gcc modules is even less of a solution. I worked this out with a lawyer; it has a legal basis. Releasing a nonfree module designed specifically to link with Emacs or GCC is a GPL violation. If it defines that special symbol, that give us evidence that that the module was designed specifically to link with on of them. I don't recall more details than that -- the conversation was many years ago. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)