From: Maurizio Vitale <mav@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs ffi
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws69kb0q.fsf@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tz1ebfhy.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
>>>>> "Anselm" == Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:
Anselm> RMS doesn't like it because it would allow to link emacs
Anselm> with non-free binary code. This leads to many possible
Anselm> licensing problems with regard to the GPL that RMS wants to
Anselm> avoid. We already have a similar situation with the Linux
Anselm> kernel. Search the emacs-devel archives for some discussions
Anselm> about this, e.g.
It is worth nothing that the same reasoning applies to GCC plugins,
which have now been accepted into the main thunk with license changes so
that one cannot develop proprietary plugins.
So maybe the same will happen with Emacs as well.
Best regards,
Maurizio
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 23:28 Emacs ffi laynor
2009-07-15 1:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-15 6:57 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-15 19:21 ` Maurizio Vitale [this message]
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2024-08-12 5:30 as for Calc and the math library arthur miller
2024-08-12 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 11:23 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-12 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 5:39 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 4:11 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 14:00 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 15:08 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 9:31 ` Emacs ffi (was: Re: as for Calc and the math library) Andrea Corallo
2024-08-15 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 20:32 ` Emacs ffi Andrea Corallo
[not found] ` <trinity-a24567af-9dc5-4e16-960c-c42d9759f282-1723755762558@3c-app-mailcom-bs05>
2024-08-16 20:07 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-16 21:21 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 9:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 13:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-17 14:30 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-17 17:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-18 4:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-17 15:36 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-18 5:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-17 15:23 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-18 13:26 ` Björn Bidar
[not found] ` <87h6birmfy.fsf@>
2024-08-19 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-19 17:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-17 2:21 ` Emanuel Berg
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