From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:43:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6tiijq6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwolu2i.fsf@gnu.org> <835z48lf21.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22034"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 09:43:35 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1ky9qR-0005ci-Hw for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:43:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40744 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky9qQ-0004Gr-Ks for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky9qB-0004Gl-QQ for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky9qA-0001QK-VB; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1798 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ky9pz-0007XL-I0; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:43:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:13 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:551 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, arthur.miller@live.com, > dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:13 -0500 > > > You are saying those programs are breaking the law? > > > The GNU project policy is to not legitimizes non-free software, what > > the law says is irrelevant here. So I fail to see what law has to do > > with anything. > > I think there is a linguistic misunderstanding here. "Legitimate" can > mean "legitimate according to the law" or "legitimate according to > standards of right and wrong". I generally use it in the latter > sense, and I think you do too. Maybe Eli applied the first > interpretation. We have a rule not to use "illegal" for anything that isn't a violation of the law, and we have that rule for a good reason. Why should we treat "legitimize" any differently? it has the same issue.