From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Pilg=E5rd?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: develop an emacs library Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:17:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zjy5st3t.fsf@kanis.fr> <87zjy4l8n6.fsf@kanis.fr> <878v5ma5ta.fsf@kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363562242 25856 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2013 23:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ivan Kanis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 18 00:17:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UHMpm-0004Ww-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:17:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHMpP-0003qV-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHMpL-0003qI-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHMpJ-0002lI-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::234]:38355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHMpF-0002k8-VP; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id k14so4276044wer.39 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:17:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=LZAPWyk/f14bjjtqCgyfWVe1/PNxC+vP5EqlyyyVlZM=; b=Z1PF6QSxy9qAKeOKgBusX4J8mULnBLvuFVRsSzKQEKhoJ/QQUXLIX+TfRT7/1OK9pp /Q9VH61gxjTrru6DctipmcpWJnKBMX7CpVB96jFG7GZaGsXvsbf/155bPGg+AbsPDGj7 g2/GD/mno0mQD1qpxYE3HRy3wHU/AAqLcnVQmtoXhChrTFOiek5zzEpH8QltWtfIFrik WCQfjr9yJYqaFm9OGS5Why2gJO/Z1ps7Db1n6RG2T/eGjluJWWzTqeIE/GWfp56I/wrU kIVIW4ntFxDh+9OEhPHIwzlcWAL4ptGQVJr1QHqDpb/9IpY5fMR+GCzFjIh6woI5kvQa xUtw== X-Received: by 10.180.90.2 with SMTP id bs2mr6976079wib.0.1363562232665; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.111.1 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:17:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878v5ma5ta.fsf@kanis.fr> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::234 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157918 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Ivan Kanis wrote: > March, 16 at 20:02 Richard wrote: > >> Why do you think a commercial company would use a elisp library? >> >> To make a nonfree extended version of Emacs, perhaps. > > Emacs users are a minority. At my company we are less than 5%. I think > you are worrying for things that won't happen. Anyway it was just an > idea that I don't have time to implement so you needn't worry. > I think the fear here is for situations like this: Some small company sees how popular new editors like lighttable and sublimetext is. Wanting to cash in on this easily they make a shiny interface relying on this "emacs library" for doing the base work. GPL ensures people don't just download the source code and do this, but it is unclear whether providing this "emacs library" could open a way to circumvent this.