From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs ffi Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:57:13 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87tz1ebfhy.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <8b9cc15f-a4d7-4666-8491-3e8f8d19e103@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247643683 18628 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2009 07:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 09:41:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQz77-0007yP-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQz76-0001zU-Q9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de reNng/ExJ3IosUAEJTUsBgi7sLudyZqPvHRC27PO//EkCeRn9gk04T+w/l Cancel-Lock: sha1:6BGlYQva0t6PJMd1odO/xDZMS5Y= In-Reply-To: <8b9cc15f-a4d7-4666-8491-3e8f8d19e103@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Mail-Followup-To: anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170898 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:66095 Archived-At: At Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT), "laynor@gmail.com" wrote: > > I've seen SXEmacs has a foreign function interface, any chance it will > also be in mainstream FSF Emacs? RMS doesn't like it because it would allow to link emacs with non-free binary code. This leads to many possible licensing problems with regard to the GPL that RMS wants to avoid. We already have a similar situation with the Linux kernel. Search the emacs-devel archives for some discussions about this, e.g. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00398.html The pragmatic me would also very much like to see a FFI in GNU Emacs, but it's also a political issue, unfortunately. HTH, Anselm -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com