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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:49:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YgpB4OitLjhKDNVx@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1moz5v-000415-9O@fencepost.gnu.org>

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> [2021-11-22 05:30]:
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> 
>   > I know that matlab is a commercial product and its license is not
>   > compatible with the GPL, but the same could be said about MS Windows OS
>   > and MacOS and yet GNU Emacs support these OSs.
> 
> The GNU Project has standard about what to do in situations like this.
> Its conclusion in this case is that it is ok to include Matlab mode in
> Emacs.  Likewise, ok to make Emacs run on Windows or MacOS.
> 
> See the GNU Coding Standards, node References, for the way we reason
> about questions like this.  I urge everyone here to read it.
> 
> First, what are our goals?
> We want to lead/help users of Matlab to try using Emacs.
> We want NOT to lead/help users of Emacs to try using Matlab.
> 
> In practice, I think Matlab mode will not do the latter, not much.
> It will mainly do the former.
> Why so?

Your reasoning is individual and I don't agree to that reasoning. I
cannot see how is that reasoning aligned to the references as quoted
on: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#References

"A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy to
the use of any non-free program."

And by including `matlab-mode' would come especially that event of
recommending, promoting and granting legitimacy of the ose of non-free
Matlab.

Thus I don't agree on the proposal to include matlab-mode into GNU
ELPA neither NonGNU ELPA neither into Emacs if the matlab-mode is
specifically made to run and interact with non-free software.

Was that (packages that are made to solely interact to non-free
software) not the main reason why MELPA is not included in Emacs as
repository and why NonGNU ELPA came into existence?

- I would not even call it "matlab" as if it appears in ELPA, it
  promotes non-free software;

- if features of matlab-mode are analogous to lisp-mode, where person
  may insert same type of binary to run with it; such as for GNU
  Octave and features are not Matlab-proprietary software specific,
  then such package could be included IMHO. lisp-mode works with many
  Lisp binaries and I guess with proprietary once as well.

- if features are specific to Matlab -- there is no way I would ever
  include it to ELPA, Emacs or NonGNU ELPA; as acting based upon free
  software principles and the same reference you quoted above.


Jean

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-14 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-20 17:53 could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)? Uwe Brauer
2021-11-20 22:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-21  0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21  8:08   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  8:17     ` Po Lu
2021-11-21  8:25       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:23         ` Po Lu
2021-11-21  9:34           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:55             ` Po Lu
2021-11-21 10:04               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:40               ` dick
2021-11-21 20:16                 ` Andy Moreton
2021-11-21 10:58         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 12:16           ` dick
2021-11-21 14:17           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:15             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 16:25               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:39                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 17:13                   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 14:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21 16:31           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 17:32             ` dick
2021-11-22 13:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-23  6:13               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  8:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  8:32       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  8:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  8:51           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  9:29               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:32           ` dick
2021-11-21 14:26             ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-22  2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  7:56   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-22 13:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-14 11:51       ` Jean Louis
2022-02-14 11:49   ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-02-16  4:11     ` Richard Stallman

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