Re: as for Calc and the math library

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Nicolas Martyanoff <nicolas@n16f.net>,  arthur.miller@live.com,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:11:00 +0200
>> 
>> I guess an FFI is already there? Or was there because it looks kind of
>> dead:
>> 
>>   https://github.com/tromey/emacs-ffi
>> 
>> Tom Tromey says in one of the issues
>> 
>>   https://github.com/tromey/emacs-ffi/issues/20
>> 
>> that John Wigley asked him on IRC to submit it for inclusion. Can't find
>> anything on emacs-devel though.
>
> It doesn't ensure GPL-compliance, AFAICT, so in its current form it
> cannot be accepted, sorry.  And I'm not sure I understand how can one
> technically enforce GPL compliance in FFI-style loading of arbitrary
> shared libraries.  The only idea that comes to mind is allow-list of
> known libraries, the way we do in sqlite.c, but I'm not sure that
> method is scalable to the basically infinite world of arbitrary
> libraries.

Maybe one should remove the entry from etc/TODO then?