From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: code signing with foreign function interface?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:20:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfx4a7sfi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NoXxH-0005jM-5y@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:04:47 -0500")
> If code signing of dynamic libraries is employed, the end-user can be
> made aware he is breaking the intentions of the GPL. Would this be
> enough to satisfy the requirements for an Emacs FFI?
> We gave GCC a plug-in interface last year, after developing a method
> to make it safer. So now it is ok to do this in Emacs as well.
Sounds wonderful.
So if I understand http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugins.html
correctly, all we have to do is to check that the dynamically loaded
object defines a global symbol "plugin_is_GPL_compatible"?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-08 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-07 6:24 code signing with foreign function interface? joakim
2010-03-07 16:13 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-07 17:05 ` joakim
2010-03-07 18:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-07 19:19 ` joakim
2010-03-08 4:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-08 8:01 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-08 7:41 ` joakim
2010-03-07 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-07 19:39 ` joakim
2010-03-08 8:04 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-08 8:15 ` joakim
2010-03-08 8:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-03-08 9:02 ` Stephen Berman
2010-03-08 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-08 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-03-09 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
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