Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I have been able to build Emacs 29.1 using Cosmopolitan. This solves
  > neatly my issue of running the latest version of Emacs in all my
  > systems. Cosmopolitan generates a self-contained binary that can run in
  > different OS and CPU combinations.

This could in principle be a good feature to support, but it also
raises possible moral issues.  Whet software would get linked, or
packages, dith Emacs in this kind of binary?  We may have boith a
legal issue and a moral issue to address:

* The legal issue: would all that software satisfy the "system library
  exception" in the GNU GPL?

* The moral issue: would any of that software be nonfree, and would it
include any material that a straightforward byuild would NOT package
with Emacs?

Before supporting this, we need to establish that there is no moral
problem with it.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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