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.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:13 -0500 Message-ID: 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> 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="31493"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 07:37:33 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 1ky7sS-000866-HL for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 07:37:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7sR-0006BE-JW for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7sC-00065M-UB for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7sC-0002rd-LS; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7sA-0005fz-00; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:538 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. ]]] > > It does so by listing (describing) them; that legitimizes the non-free > > programs. > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)