From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alex Corcoles <alex@corcoles.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:34:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1r0usA-0005De-9R@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8750404081ef2c5e9570eab623d815a4935485e.camel@corcoles.net> (message from Alex Corcoles on Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:23:21 +0100)
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> I have been able to build Emacs 29.1 using Cosmopolitan. This solves
> neatly my issue of running the latest version of Emacs in all my
> systems. Cosmopolitan generates a self-contained binary that can run in
> different OS and CPU combinations.
This could in principle be a good feature to support, but it also
raises possible moral issues. Whet software would get linked, or
packages, dith Emacs in this kind of binary? We may have boith a
legal issue and a moral issue to address:
* The legal issue: would all that software satisfy the "system library
exception" in the GNU GPL?
* The moral issue: would any of that software be nonfree, and would it
include any material that a straightforward byuild would NOT package
with Emacs?
Before supporting this, we need to establish that there is no moral
problem with it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-09 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-07 21:23 Interest in a Cosmopolitan build? Alex Corcoles
2023-11-08 9:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-11-08 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 14:54 ` Björn Bidar
2023-11-08 20:11 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 0:00 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:32 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:02 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 2:34 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-11-09 10:56 ` Alex Corcoles
[not found] <mailman.37.1699462824.25818.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
2023-11-08 20:16 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-10 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-10 10:10 ` Alex Corcoles
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