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Re: display word wrapping


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: display word wrapping
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:55:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Our position is that when a program is designed to use certain
> specific libraries, it has been combined with them, regardless
> of whether the linking is static or dynamic.
>
> In other words, we won't let people get around the GPL merely
> by putting code into DLLs.

We are not trying to get around the GPL, the libraries are all
Free. But this does raise an interesting question. If we distribute a
binary version of Emacs that can use these Free libraries if they are
installed on the user's system, but does not depend on them being
present, and does not include the libraries by default, then is it
OUR responsibility to distribute the source for those libraries, or
can we tell the user that if they install those libraries, they can
get the source from the same place they got the library?

My idea when designing the dynamic loading for image libraries, was
that we do not want to distribute non-GNU software from ftp.gnu.org.
So I wanted to make Emacs not depend on those libraries, but I wanted
the binary distribution to be as useful as possible to users. If this
is not possible, then perhaps we should change the code to statically
link the libraries, and distribute an Emacs that has only XBM/PPM
support, and leave it to others to provide binaries capable of
displaying the other formats.




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