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: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:13:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517537820 9269 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 02:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 02:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: georgedp@orbitalimpact.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 03:16:56 2018 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 1ehQts-0000Hv-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:16:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQvt-0003PT-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQuc-0002uD-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQtY-0006Yb-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQrN-0003qt-1D; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQrM-00024j-By; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:13:48 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:48:31 -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:222386 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 also find it fruitless/useless/annoying, When you say it is "annoying", that describes your feelings. I can't argue with your feelings, but to get annoyed by a little work that one needs to do at most twice in a lifetime seems to me excessive. On the other hand, saying it is "fruitless" and "useless" is simply incorrect. It helps us enforce the GNU GPL. > Both positions are only "a matter of principle" Our policy of requiring copyright assignments is entirely a practical matter -- to help us enforce the GPL. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.