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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 14732@debbugs.gnu.org, arnima@hafro.is
Subject: bug#14732: Package dos-mode for ELPA
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:28:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iqtxj0m6rs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r4e4t8nj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:05:52 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Last time I checked, csh comes with a BSD license.
>
> I guess I confused it with ksh, sorry.

Which is also available as free software (CPL), and is packaged by
Debian, Red Hat, etc.

> And ksh is not the worst offender: look in sh-script, and you will see
> there, in addition to ksh, also rc from Plan 9 and even (gasp!) SCO's
> oash.
>
> If we care so much about not supporting non-free shells, why do we
> have all those in sh-script?

Accidents of ancient history, I guess.

> The point is that we should discourage non-free software regardless of
> whether it comes from Microsoft, SCO, AT&T, or you-name-it.

Sure.

> Currently, we are biased in that respect.

I disagree.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27 16:15 bug#14732: Package dos-mode for ELPA Arni Magnusson
2013-06-27 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01  1:00 ` Arni Magnusson
2013-07-01 10:44   ` Arni Magnusson
2013-07-01 16:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-01 23:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-02  0:12       ` Arni Magnusson
2013-08-05  0:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-05  2:20           ` Arni Magnusson
2013-08-06 21:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 15:54               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 16:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-07 17:27                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 17:26                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-07 18:11                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 19:18                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-07 19:49                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-07 21:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-08  2:45                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-08  3:47                           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-08 17:05                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-08 17:28                               ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-08-08 17:52                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-08 17:48                               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 19:39                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-07 21:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 21:19                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-07 12:34       ` Arni Magnusson
2013-07-10  0:43         ` Arni Magnusson
2013-08-08  3:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-08 16:59   ` Eli Zaretskii

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