Re: Contradictiory directions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > These are system libraries, all of which are either free or have free
  > replacements.  I don't think we allow features that depend on
  > proprietary libraries that have no free replacement.  And to distribute
  > a binary of Emacs that links against a non-free non-system library would
  > be illegal.

The GNU GPL has special rules for "system libraries".  The rule is
different in GPL v2 and GPL v3, but the basic point is that they permit
linking any GPL-covered program with limited libraries that come with the
operating system itself.

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