From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:26:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> <20080812171404.GB7999@muc.de> <20080813092057.GA3010@muc.de> <20080814083817.GA2593@muc.de> <877iak7xfp.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <873al79akr.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219048062 26257 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2008 08:27:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, lord@emf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, hannes@saeurebad.de, ams@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 18 10:28:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KV06L-0008MY-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:28:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KV05O-00048y-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KV05H-00048N-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KV05G-00046Y-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34462 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KV05F-00046J-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:41253 helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KV057-0003rJ-H3; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m7I8QUfi012830; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:26:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:14:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102584 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > The Linux kernel doesn't refuse to boot when it recognizes a non GPL > module being loaded. It justs informs you its "tainted". > > Emacs should of course just refuse to use functions in modules that are > not GPL compliant, not just inform the user that the moral integrity of > Emacs has been corrupted. > > I don't think this is a solution, because it would be easy to patch out > the code that enforces that restriction. Yes, indeed, but its also trivial to patch Emacs to run non-free extensions today. Is the real issue that the GPL doesnt inhibit soft linking of non-free modules? I always assumed the GPL didnt allow for this. -- Joakim Verona