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: Contradictiory directions Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20211211035614.15517.53830@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83k0gbr0dm.fsf@gnu.org> <87y24r33bn.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ilvu1ldh.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a6h5tap6.fsf@gnus.org> <87tufbu7jg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87y24nr6nk.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf0ntz0t.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wnk6mjlm.fsf@gnus.org> <877dc6tjz0.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k0g6mivu.fsf@gnus.org> <87y24ms4jj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87fsqumi16.fsf@gnus.org> <87tufas40e.fsf@yahoo.com> <877dc6mhjc.fsf@gnus.org> <87pmpys3gv.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735mumgyy.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf0ms2to.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="32792"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 05:43:11 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 1mxibn-0008OB-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:43:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34172 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxibl-0004rF-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZO-00075H-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48428 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZO-0005Y6-IV; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:42 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=NKXLTEOFEaZK5IfJgeW/18qq213xJ/9wsxs1kE4fNQY=; b=msgScVz+VNWI Wk0jfpjd7/h75yqFsCBfPl+EZ/7OAC93FBnXA5nlCRReJE+6NOHGDlhK5ATUHrGnZl3po0Gc8dbCQ XJNuqaATIIxdwGtZpUFrUgL5Puiak6cud4ej96faK6kRm4ejMc22qoaIAb2/wkj7jsOcplfxLmLIA +W7bD1I7pc91y0qWmwvq01w0rIIP20IX6AYDkDLiBtQg9GoDtdhA5FL6nNzpg9T+EaM/RVZ1qhV0V mrWLAtfFMA2TN966HB7xKpIa8bK3qezujnY642CdlWeLoPCxLgKaJzOFyJzr8rHH50DxwkkAKiFcL rO1FjI3K59UBCfRkxDfaTA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mxiZO-0003EO-Lg; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:40:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87lf0ms2to.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:13:39 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:282089 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. ]]] > These are system libraries, all of which are either free or have free > replacements. I don't think we allow features that depend on > proprietary libraries that have no free replacement. And to distribute > a binary of Emacs that links against a non-free non-system library would > be illegal. The GNU GPL has special rules for "system libraries". The rule is different in GPL v2 and GPL v3, but the basic point is that they permit linking any GPL-covered program with limited libraries that come with the operating system itself. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)