From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Compiled files without sources???? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hc7lzcc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8762rq7w7h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v2en9n1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871v2eyece.fsf_-_@engster.org> <87r5ad91dm.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87zkp1solk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrk54pzp.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87tyf7aw9b.fsf@engster.org> <871uxgyu0u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcus3slm.fsf@engster.org> <87k4b4jv8p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877h7444uj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tya82mv5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311783316 5050 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 16:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 18:15:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6lG-0006PD-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6lG-0000Er-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6lD-0000D6-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6lC-0007kH-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:35573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6lB-0007kB-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6l9-0000T1-TY; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tya82mv5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:39:42 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142399 Archived-At: >> We are, in essence, distributing binary blobs with Emacs, and I find it >> surprising that this does not seem to disturb anybody much except >> myself. If true, that is a very grave problem-- not just legally but ethically. Could you be so kind as to tell me, concisely, what the situation is? Which files have been included, which sources are missing, and what version are they included in? (I have not followed this thread until now, since I thought it was just a technical issue.) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/