On 1 January 2017 at 06:04, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > However, I don't see any ethical issue about making and distributing
> > Docker images of Emacs as long as we get the details right: for
> > instance, use an endorsed free GNU/Linux distro.
>
> We could use Guix to generate the image contents from scratch, i.e. we
> wouldn’t even have to use a “base image” (usually a minimal GNU/Linux
> system).  The idea is to export the package closure for the “emacs”
> package from the Guix store (this includes all runtime dependencies) and
> wrap up the files in a plain docker image.
>

Arguably there should be a fully free distribution that could be the base
for more than just Emacs.