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: Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub? Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:42 -0400 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 1524118136 28638 195.159.176.226 (19 Apr 2018 06:08:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Joonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Saraj=C3=A4rvi?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 08:08:52 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 1f92kW-0007NX-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f92mc-0005d5-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f92mT-0005cV-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f92mS-00032S-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f92mI-0002wA-W8; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f92mI-00006c-2H; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:42 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Joonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Saraj=C3=A4rvi?= on Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:55:17 +0300) 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:224723 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 would like to have GNU Emacs available in the Flatpak [1] format. We need to think about whether it raises any ethical issues. What systems can a Flatpak package run on? What software is needed to make a Flatpak? Is any of it nonfree? What software is needed to run one? Is any of it nonfree? > To get going with this, I have written a simple flatpak packaging [2] of > Emacs, and based on a few days of testing it seems to be working pretty > nicely for my needs. If you've done this with solely free software, that answers the first two questions in a good way. -- 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.