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: gsettings.m4 copyright Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:53:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r19pgl3x.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87r19pgl3x.fsf@yahoo.com> <83k0fhc75r.fsf@gnu.org> <87y23xdlkm.fsf@yahoo.com> <83fsq5c6qs.fsf@gnu.org> 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="34188"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, masm+github@masm11.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 04:55:37 2022 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 1n4xOj-0008hv-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2022 04:55:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50176 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4xOh-0002pq-HB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4xNA-0001fF-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=33772 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 1n4xN8-0008IV-DM; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:53:58 -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=nA3+hkX8BpDQWdDb8xcBosPLrYXMMU4oAzw9IUPV5Ho=; b=fmnswp16iS2c T5KtP1VQAkd9TzxVKY0/RIWleARJiKx5zm1WPsmrQ2ga2V7ttZfAb6oGvZ7QGy/Fz5BZlR8Y2mVAv kD+onmarFQTZCrl8dUPGKJCgghevBqo6GJ7KQ2bqKWazVlkXonDJs/WwcjIvzc1Gv4mRVGGDhny6l DwWMWz35xK8IwOonbq/56e7omrLAtWxi0LQrOus7eqiQXhHicACmWjwc6C0lR7q75ENm5OIW+qVDn IOFQryYyokHWsmfanlnHCZvI6MNCYiETryiELvHXQS7GHHid+WhFc8DIwsbRLK238DYuszEBN/Xh/ 3YdevSVughEC6XP+vEvZZw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4xN8-0001Kc-EK; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:53:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 3 Jan 2022 22:48:36 -0500) 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:284208 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. ]]] > Does this policy apply to importing Emacs Lisp libraries as well? > I assume that the answer is "no", but if so I think it would be useful > to briefly explain why that case should be viewed differently. The answer is no. Here's why the cases are different. The C libraries I was talking about before are not specifically for Emacs. They may be used by many unrelated applications, Emacs being just one. We don't consider them _part_ of Emacs, we just distribute them along with Emacs. It;s different for Emacs Lisp packages. If we want a Lisp library enough to distribute it with Emacs, we want to make it part of Emacs. -- 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)