From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:05:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KyUlt-00061z-7w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vxo14gs.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (message from Chong Yidong on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:37:39 -0500)
The original files are in XML format. It doesn't make sense to
distribute these files, and thinking of them as "source code" is
dubious, because (i) it's trivial to perform the reverse transformation,
and (ii) the whole point of distributing .rnc files is that .rnc files
are easier and clearer for humans to read than XML---exactly the
opposite of the "source code"/"object code" paradigm!
Ok, I am convinced that the rnc files are really source code.
(But they need comments!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-07 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 1:57 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-07 5:37 ` http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 Chong Yidong
2008-11-07 17:05 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2008-11-07 9:47 ` http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 Sean Sieger
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