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: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:53:50 -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 1517612009 15684 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 22:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 23:53:25 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 1ehkCl-0002vn-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 23:53:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkEk-0004gF-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkDX-0004dy-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkDW-0003tp-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:53:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkDO-0003Wn-LD; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehkDO-0003Ne-6h; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:53:50 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:02:12 -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:222445 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. ]]] > Well, my understanding of the policy was that one's _contributions_ are > owned by the FSF. I.e., that you have to sign waivers which tell the > FSF, "Hey, I give up all rights to own any code that I give you guys in > these certain projects." To me, that seems hypocritical and it seemed > that indeed the actual FSF policy versus what the FSF itself expounds > were in disagreement. If you accuse us of hypocrisy, you should be prepared to present particulars. What is the principle that the FSF stands for, that conflicts with our practices? My hunch is that you've been misinformed about our principles. If you say what you believe our principles to be, we can compare them with our real principles. Our main principle is: users should have control of the software they use. Therefore, a nonfree program is an injustice. To eliminate that injustice, we release free software and encourage others to do so. We use copyleft to prevent our free software from being perverted by middlemen into nonfree software and thus used to subjugate others. As for copyright, we do not consider that an issue of principle, not directly. We consider it a sort of weapon that can be used for good or for bad. When it is used to subjugate people, that is bad. When it is used, through copyleft, to protect people from subjugation, that is good. -- 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.