From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Magic MIME Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:41:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87prv4h032.fsf@jurta.org> <87bq6ndx3p.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202766131 31792 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2008 21:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 22:42:34 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 1JOgQ2-0000ay-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:42:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOgPY-0002Rg-BM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOgPS-0002Ns-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOgPR-0002Kx-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOgPQ-0002Ke-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOgPQ-0005eq-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-231-35.inter.net.il [84.229.231.35]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id JDF15884 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:39:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bq6ndx3p.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:59:38 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:88793 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:59:38 +0200 > > > Emacs should be powerful enough to be able to visit files without > > requiring an external tool; if it needs to consult some database for > > that, it should be easy enough to include such a data base in the > > Emacs distribution, perhaps even in a form that is convenient for > > reading in Lisp. > > This is one option However, I'm not sure if licence conditions of the > mime-magic database allow including it to Emacs. Even if the license precludes that, it can only prevent us from including the data base verbatim. If we create our own data base, with equivalent contents, but in utterly different form, no license can prevent that, I think, especially if the person who writes that data base for Emacs never looks at the original data base, but instead works from a description written by someone else (that someone could look at mime-magic to produce the description).