From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maurizio Vitale Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs ffi Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:25 -0400 Organization: Polymath Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <87ws69kb0q.fsf@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <8b9cc15f-a4d7-4666-8491-3e8f8d19e103@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <87tz1ebfhy.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> Reply-To: maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247685712 24918 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2009 19:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:52 +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 21:21:46 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 1MRA2w-0006Or-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:21:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34511 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA2u-00008B-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA2a-000086-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA2U-00007u-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39818 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA2U-00007r-Jq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41540 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRA2U-0004y8-0Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA2S-0006hm-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:12 +0000 Original-Received: from pool-96-236-252-60.pitbpa.east.verizon.net ([96.236.252.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:12 +0000 Original-Received: from maurizio.vitale by pool-96-236-252-60.pitbpa.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-96-236-252-60.pitbpa.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/aBp5NBZGCleqX7blAyLPZR1nZ0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66123 Archived-At: >>>>> "Anselm" == Anselm Helbig 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 --