Re: Emacs ffi

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I think GPL compliance could be checked but I agree we can't require
  > external libraries where Emacs is the minority to impose such
  > requirements. Well technically we can but who will honor them? Does the
  > FFI interface have a system for such things?

Instead of thinking of this question as an abstract one, it will be
more productive to look at exanples.  I think we will find that most
things people might want in the area of mathematical libraries are
available as GPL-compatible free software, and that most of the rest
come with an operating system's major components and would qualify for
the "system library" exception.

So maybe in practice the problematical case only rarely occurs.


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