From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: code signing with foreign function interface? Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:15:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268037179 26167 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2010 08:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 08 09:32:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoYOU-0003Gn-G5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:32:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoYOQ-0003k6-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoY8D-00087b-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56353 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoY8A-00087F-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoY88-0003IX-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:43846 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoY86-0003Hg-C9; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id o288FtnP013849; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:15:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:04:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121730 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > 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. > > I will ask someone to write down the details and put them in the GNU > coding standards. Sounds great, thanks! -- Joakim Verona