From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring users to external web pages Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:43:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1484675329.1861.1@smtp.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484865900 3159 195.159.176.226 (19 Jan 2017 22:45:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, simenheg@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 23:44:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cULRb-0007QU-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:44:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cULRg-0002jl-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:44:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cULR7-0002jR-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:44:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cULR6-0006nJ-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cULQz-0006go-KK; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cULQy-0001q7-VT; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:43:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:53:33 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211412 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > SH> Is there a policy for referring users to external web pages in Emacs, or > SH> can we go ahead? > SH> The [documentation] at MDN is licensed under CC-BY-SA, if that matters. > This will have to be decided by Richard, or someone at the FSF. That documentation is free, so it is ok for us to recommend it. There is no ethical issue in having a special function to access those pages. Technically, though, if users need to remember that function's name, this feature is more complexity than it is worth. Can you find a way to make it automatic so that users don't have anything extra to remember? Also, we don't want to pressure users in the direction of consulting material over the net rather than having a local copy. So please make the function also work with a local copy, if there is a local copy. By the way: Please don't use the word "content" to refer to published works. That term disparages those works. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.