From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnu.emacs.sources ettiqutte question Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:00:50 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87hd0e3j99.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1155603049.974865.106650@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155606064 11119 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2006 01:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 03:41:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCnvP-0003o4-Cs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCnvO-0001AP-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: individual.net UsTH3dHNk/v7bRykNoukkA6n6CZE/SzXLOUC9jJ/oRMBjGKClY Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SFH0fIvhdbNfkLgQtDJFDUhDDjE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141065 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36690 Archived-At: "Žorne" writes: > I wrote a generic mode for syntax highlighting IBM AS/400 CL (Control > Language) files. It seems to work so far. > > Leaving aside the question of who really cares or wants such an obscure > thing, i am wondering about the rules for posting on gnu.emacs.sources. > Emacs is free and the code for the mode is free, but it is only useful > for editing files which only run on a distinctly non-free operating > system--and one for which i suspect there is no free replacement going > to be written... ever. This should not be an impediment to make and distribute free software. This is really a strategical question, and given the obscurity of the proprietary software concerned, it is not very important. It might even suscitate the development of free implementations! What about an AS400 Control Language unix shell? ;-) > So i guess there is an analogy with, say, an editing mode for java > files back when there was no free java compiler. Or something. > Anyway, i'm interested to know if posting such a thing would likely be > frowned upon. I don't think so. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "You can tell the Lisp programmers. They have pockets full of punch cards with close parentheses on them." --> http://tinyurl.com/8ubpf