Re: Emacs ffi

[Maurizio Vitale]

>>>>> "Anselm" == Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

    Anselm> RMS doesn't like it because it would allow to link emacs
    Anselm> with non-free binary code. This leads to many possible
    Anselm> licensing problems with regard to the GPL that RMS wants to
    Anselm> avoid. We already have a similar situation with the Linux
    Anselm> kernel. Search the emacs-devel archives for some discussions
    Anselm> about this, e.g.

It is worth nothing that the same reasoning applies to GCC plugins,
which have now been accepted into the main thunk with license changes so
that one cannot develop proprietary plugins.

So maybe the same will happen with Emacs as well.

Best regards,

     Maurizio

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