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: as for Calc and the math library Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:59:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <864j7qhup6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5hi0yts.fsf@valhala.localdomain> <86y152ge0b.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzgjfwqp.fsf@gnu.org> <87sev78arx.fsf@gmail.com> <86le0z89u1.fsf@gnu.org> <87o75v87n1.fsf@gmail.com> <86frr786k7.fsf@gnu.org> <861q2q8e18.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="17192"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 24 05:00:41 2024 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 1shh16-0004KR-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:00:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1shh0Q-0001bs-Uj; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1shh0O-0001bK-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:59:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1shh0O-0004Wi-0D; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:59:56 -0400 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=oq07FV+vipg9j8nHgywelRZTCOEyYT4qImHqm9ZjWAY=; b=MDGmTTUHwdLA BdtC5fQ2C82V3tPdDnMbKfbORv7DzfTUb/EvOWTabpSNJ4VMRw2qeu3nZMptupCeQvgWHHN6MVWJD zWsl8in3NfStsfHCd8VAJ92MIhCUN6lezQkhvI9bXx8FXCm4ZZJa7OMG4O3TYzGhlEkCakN8DkH4/ NWFbKfoQ4Kj9sYC+eelCYhqgY3sTVDQ/Y/QFgGShQ/FvUZLVYlGgTZu5qTM+wNGnkH1LwiBop3QDB zCq6hvDnll3e/EjMhNO7i8D4OAPGWk3niYdgPKkjSqn9yixDkViFw6e5PvG7jhp/xWeEB15rbF1Vu 5qf00pXeGNHSN8sb35qBjw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1shh0N-0004w2-Oz; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:59:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from arthur miller on Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:05:40 +0000) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323102 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. ]]] > Since you have chimmed in, and in the light of your > clarifications, may I ask what do you think of the difference > between doing the same thing from the Lisp? Is there any > conceptual difference between loading an external library from a > Lisp library as it is from a C library? In principle, they are the same issue; however, specific details of the situation might affect the conclusion, and the choice of language might make a difference to what those details are. So I can't say anything more concrete without details (and perhaps consulting a lawyer). -- 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)