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: windows installer Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:47:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87po99qzbn.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509227366 7399 195.159.176.226 (28 Oct 2017 21:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 23:49:22 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 1e8Yyn-0001In-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:49:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Yyt-0002Sw-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Yxw-0002SH-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Yxv-00012k-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Yx5-0008Pr-LA; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Yx5-0001WC-91; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:47:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <87po99qzbn.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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:219813 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. ]]] > NSIS is free software, albeit the non GPL compatible CPL > (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/License). I don't believe this is a problem > as it would only be a packager. I'd welcome more informed opinion about > whether this is appropriate for Emacs. I agree, it would not be a problem, since used only as a packager. -- 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.