Re: official Emacs Docker image

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Wouldn't the "official" Docker image for Emacs be some "official" base OS,
  > such as debian:wheezy,

I don't understand concretely what the scenario is.
Who is doing what?  Who is deciding what?

The FSF won't officially base anything on Debian, because we don't
endorse Debian.  See http://gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
for the reason we don't.

  >  the officialness of Emacs running in a container should be
  > transitively determined by where its sources came from.

Not solely from that!  The container would contain other programs
besides Emacs, and our ethical concerns apply to them too.

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