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: Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el] Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zh1jag72.fsf@gkayaalp.com> 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="14746"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 07:11:11 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 1kzCta-0003i9-Im for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:11:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37396 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtZ-0008HB-LR for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCt0-0008Gn-A5 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCsz-0004rf-TR; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCss-0006TV-2K; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:47:21 +0100) 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:576 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. ]]] > No, they are not at all. They are quite precise. If you fail to not > understand what "promote free software", "never says its users to use > exclusively free software" and "never condemns people for using > proprietary software" then the fail is completely on your side. That sentence is so nested that I am not sure what it means. However, I can tell you what the GNU Project says. The GNU Project never condemns people for using nonfree software and never tries to insist that people must use exclusively free software. -- 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)