From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: (Really) Free Software future Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:10:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20191010070606.GW27628@protected.rcdrun.com> <8561e1505c3d90c4deb8bdbfb1a20dced6e96066.camel@gnu.org> <20191016060031.GM7026@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20191016060031.GM7026@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:30:31 +0530) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jean Louis Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Sorry Richard, but it is really a vendor lock-in. As you know there is > > only one _upstream_ of systemd and that upstream is a company. What vendor lock-in means is that there is only one version you can get and you have to get it from a particular company, a vendor (meaning it has sold you something). It is possible to distribute modified versions of systemD. I think some already exist. But even if they did not exist now, they could exist. Vendor lock-in in the true sense occurs only with nonfree software. With a nonfree program, modified versions do not exist. > systemd binaries are dependent on systemd and replaces programs that > did not have such dependencies. What does "systemD binaries" mean? That expression would normally mean the binaries of systemD itself, but it is clear you don't mean that. > There is my personal protest against the systemd's LGPL license. It is > service manager and not a special library that shall sacrifice freedom > in special cases. How do other programs talk with systemD? Do they link with it? Communicate through pipes? -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)