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Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:43:13 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, arthur.miller@live.com,
> dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:13 -0500
>
> > You are saying those programs are breaking the law?
>
> > The GNU project policy is to not legitimizes non-free software, what
> > the law says is irrelevant here. So I fail to see what law has to do
> > with anything.
>
> I think there is a linguistic misunderstanding here. "Legitimate" can
> mean "legitimate according to the law" or "legitimate according to
> standards of right and wrong". I generally use it in the latter
> sense, and I think you do too. Maybe Eli applied the first
> interpretation.
We have a rule not to use "illegal" for anything that isn't a
violation of the law, and we have that rule for a good reason. Why
should we treat "legitimize" any differently? it has the same issue.
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, (continued)
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/12
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Arthur Miller, 2021/01/12
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/13
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Arthur Miller, 2021/01/15
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/09
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/09
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/10
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/09
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2021/01/07
Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/07
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/07
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/07
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/07
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/07
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/08
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Arthur Miller, 2021/01/08
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/08
Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/09