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: NonGNU ELPA package submission: EPIO Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:58:13 -0400 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="3128"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Hutzley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 03 05:58:50 2022 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 1narO6-0000fi-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2022 05:58:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37576 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1narO4-0001ds-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1narNW-0000uw-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=58550 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 1narNW-00063d-6p; Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:58:14 -0400 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=GUn29AjzxVw2dmG3XwPoVfbBm8Rup0nx9U1SKUd/o3U=; b=U1pRvNPPv0Gy +8DY9O1NrDyFh6e+IoM/a1iAfZ8SUuJGUazu9hXDmT2uubbpOtaYgT2p4o6+EhFvj2pjdl4VbHD6P Gx9s46vkLVphDQW3oQk/kfvQovtbZ2n8IVJBycSGLhQ06yh4aSFj1Kpz3CbmhZMuIWwLEeh6sNcIU Mmb1bRM6lV8EA5v0sQf9S0LTrIloo0lJiSQFICFZyW+Iy0nmEh4dsQ/ARxE0cviTPsjBAZo0SgiRQ uvQLaqU1s4O+/7qdA2LCW6JmugJOgRo5gOaTqWAcqzA/DGwTq4BlA22qkLv5Nl99EU2QcB2VOiNp8 hXwaOsOn6sKu1aJ/24k8Mg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1narNV-0002gv-Up; Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:58:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Hutzley on Fri, 1 Apr 2022 14:53:40 -0700) 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:287728 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. ]]] > >From looking at the license list, the MPL2.0 is compatible (it's the > MPL1.0 that is incompatible) with the GPL (I usually use it due to its > weaker copyleft, which avoids software being "open source" but not > "free" just because of the license of a dependency), I can't relate those words to anything I know about the MPL 2 and free software, so I wonder if a misunderstanding might be involved. How might this result in a program that is open source but not free? That result does happen, but I don't see what in this situation could have that effect. Would you like to spell out the scenatio that you have in mind, and how it might result in a program that is open source but not free? Then we could determine whether it is a misunderstanding. -- 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)