Re: as for Calc and the math library

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > So it could be good to keep an eye on the modules that people are
  > > releasing, to make sure they do not load in other nonfree code.
  > > If they do, the FSF should tell their distributors to stop.

  > Yes, and this perhaps the only thing we can do, since technically it is very
  > easy to circumwent the license.

The crucial preparation for this is to make sure we have effective,
practical control over what modules are being visibly distribued by
others.  that means teachng a substantial part of the community to
understand that this is a kind of deception, and to tell us if they
spot one.

We could also think of some other measures, such as including in Emacs
a list of hash codes of such deceptive modules, and code to refuse
to load them and explain why.

Of course, this would not actually _prevent_ users from loading those
modules.  A user could delete the pertinent item from the list, then
go ahead.  But I expect this would be fairly effective at leading the
community away from doing that.

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