Re: Contradictiory directions

[Alexandre Garreau]

Le merkredo, 15-a de decembro 2021, 8-a horo kaj 23:17 CET Lars 
Ingebrigtsen a écrit :
> > It's still based on looking at the names of modules: proprietary
> > modules could easily be renamed so that their filenames are the same
> > as the free ones, and vice versa: it is not concrete at all.
> > 
> > The PCRE and csvtable modules are also in the public domain.
> > Proprietary versions of them could be created ino the future.
> 
> There are no guarantees in this world.  Anybody could be making
> proprietary versions of absolutely all modules Emacs is loading,
> including libc.so, and there's no technical ways of stopping Emacs from
> loading them.

No, libc is copylefted, and proprietariness is in great part *due* to 
copyright.  Without it, or rather, with its license hereditarilly being 
made free, the only way to make it proprietary is obfuscation (including 
compiling without giving source, agreed).  But you can still RE the thing, 
it’s still “legally free” (like linux’s blobs).  There’s at least this 
guarranty.

> > BTW, the term "allowlist" is confusing.  It took me a while to guess
> > its meaning.  Why not use the industry-standard term "whitelist"
> > instead?
> The industry standard is allowlist/blocklist.

since when? that makes me curious