Re: Vendoring code in a (Non?)GNU ELPA package

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > Vendoring in this context is industry jargon for hosting 3rd party
  > dependencies (in this case the miniaudio library) alongside software
  > (the elisp package). Put plainly, they want to know if it would be okay
  > to host a copy of the miniaudio library alongside their elisp package.

Thanks.

Let's not adopt that term "vendoring", particularly since the GNU Project
is not a "vender".  But the question is a reasonable one to pose.

The answer would depend on questions such as
(1) What is the license of that library?
(2) What on does it do?
(3) What is the reason for using it?
(4) When running, how does it communicate with Emacs?
(5) Does it get linked with Emacs?  If so, when does that happen?
(6) In what sense is it a "library"?
(7) Would this be souce code, executable, or both?
(8) How would it get built for your distro?

Some combinations of answers might make it ok, others would make it
unacceptable.

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