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: Docker Hub requires nonfree software to log in Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o9yor53e.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485833708 12448 195.159.176.226 (31 Jan 2017 03:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 03:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 04:35:02 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 1cYPDh-000306-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 04:35:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYPDl-0005Hj-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYPD8-0005GV-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYPD7-0005Y2-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYPD6-0005XL-7F; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cYPD5-0007eA-8P; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:34:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <87o9yor53e.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:32:21 -0500) 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:211782 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. ]]] > I think you're confusing two things: Docker Hub as a web site (which > requires nonfree software to use during *setup*) and Docker Hub as an > image repository (which requires nothing but Docker itself, it's like a > package repository with automated builds per package). They may talk to > the same backend databases, but they are not the same thing. This is the first I heard of the distinction. A concrete practical question: does it work to prepare and upload images without running nonfree JS code? If so, we can go ahead and upload images. > Building an alternative to Docker Hub is an interesting proposition, but > not a blocker to this work. That seems to be a misunderstanding -- I didn't propose we do that, only that we distribute our Emacs images from some FSF server. The image is just a file, right? So we can distribute it any way that we distribute other files, right? -- 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.