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: Grammar checking Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:28:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sfdnyuxc.fsf@posteo.de> <83sfdl2z26.fsf@gnu.org> <58158ae49808189da7b2@heytings.org> <83mt3t2xz1.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzyxxqir.fsf@gmail.com> <58158ae4986fa602fe47@heytings.org> 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="25115"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lynn Winebarger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 08 05:29:50 2023 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 1pkzGv-0006MP-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 05:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pkzG7-0007Cr-O1; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pkzG6-0007CL-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pkzG6-0004dm-H2; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:28:58 -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=6jYWmUHhEYjUQUHCMQ6PvTVyj72EhGLEp2977KQZ23A=; b=r8LQkhn6/rHQ F0TnAYu/6GOuvzQ8bYZGtkc8iLWN8p75a6SR+m0YOH5UNPQZE2O9+5MPGSFUaJCAMX9m6C0wk+tKY CPmVkgCbtlTl579MHhUlTBGOog3pQo99xgFCVXYJGys2snVi/UB2ffDZ7qcV4dCaDcndWWD9WiZ3i AqSx3i6gfAydLMj529G1kMyTOTj/LYbhqEoRsLYeopLCKTYdJ9FMFMLHkRUXcuJCAn5wFW0WH8Dg9 4zLyWcm5rUkMmfQEKXGfl9l90xs/9QDLnE8Mzoe4Wut9Wa8GVDYUEeZrE5NDsuY9fkLU4k3201zOZ OduYb1nt3a/2DMpuG+PqzQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pkzG6-00016q-3Q; Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:28:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Lynn Winebarger on Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:29:15 -0400) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305168 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. ]]] > Perhaps the LanguageTool.org owners would consider this a violation of > their service's terms and conditions as a justification for not accepting > contributions of source code to the project. This seems to assume that a developer has an obligation to install any change that "is an improvement" and must submit a "justification" for not adding it. That seems very strange to me. I think any developer is entitled to reject a change and does not have to justify rejecting it. > We could consider forking that code in a limited way: adding new rules. We can consider forking in any manner whatsoever. Of course, forking the free version of LanguageTool has a practical downside (more work for us!) as well as an upside. We might decide it is not worth the trouble. -- 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)