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: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:54 -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 1517862921 14556 195.159.176.226 (5 Feb 2018 20:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 20:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, 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 Mon Feb 05 21:35:17 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 1einTr-0003DR-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:35:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVs-0008VH-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVb-0008Sg-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:37:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVa-0000E5-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1einVX-000098-1W; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1einVW-0000t7-Fi; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:36:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Mon, 05 Feb 2018 04:19:54 -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:222558 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. ]]] > > We don't have a way to do a disclaimer for future changes. We have > > not had many contributors who wanted to disclaim instead of assigning, > > so we haven't tried. But it might be possible. > That sounds like a great idea. It's definitely something to be looked into. I will ask a lawyer whether in principle this should be possible. -- 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.