From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 11:43:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> <4638EE03.8000602@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178185441 15400 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 09:44:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 11:43:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjXqv-0002jC-Ae for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 11:43:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjXxQ-0006x2-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjXxD-0006wn-FV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjXxC-0006wb-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjXxC-0006wY-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjXqf-000161-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 28663 invoked from network); 3 May 2007 09:43:39 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 3 May 2007 09:43:39 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed\, 2 May 2007 22\:07\:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43580 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > As I explained once before, your "distro" is potentially destructive > too. It's not hard to imagine how it could lead to a fork of Emacs on > Windows (not that it's *going* to happen, but it paves the way for it > to happen). That's the "risk" of free software ... somebody taking what you've written, modify it (as the license permits), and release it as a modified version, offering you (and everybody else) the patches to make your version "comply". If you don't like those patches, well, that's your freedom. I don't see how someone using the freedom of GPL should be accused of being destructive, just because he does something you don't approve of. I can fully understand why Lennart would prefer his changes to be adopted into the core (it's no fun to maintain your "own distro"), but if you don't want to do that (I haven't considered the actual changes), then IMO it is fine -- and fully legal -- for him to make his own distro. BTW, IMO, Lennart is doing a fine job of helping getting the 22.1 release out by providing (unpatched) W32 binaries for all the pretests. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk