From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:21:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21257"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 14:24:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4OKW-0005OF-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47528 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4OKV-0003Ex-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4OI9-00021B-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4OI8-0002li-IE; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4OI0-00016t-HX; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:21:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:59:14 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263455 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. ]]] > Software is a collection of instructions and data that tell the > computer how to work. > If schema is data it is part of software together with instructions. I made a mistake in raising the question of whether the schemas are software, because in regard to whether the program is free, that doesn't matter. Data for the program to use in order to operate is not software code, but it is part of the program so it needs to be free. For instance, images are not rules, not code, but we won't include an image in a free program if it is not free. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)