Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]
> > However, linking with nonfree software in that same way would be a
> > violation.
> >
> > The issues about plug-ins are more complicated and more specipic than
> > that putative principle would suggest.
> >     
>
> Because I was not talking about plugins.  I was talking about making GCC
> and Emacs interoperate.  That turns neither into a plugin of the other.
>   


What we are looking for is essentially a way for Emacs to use GCC as a 
library.  That makes GCC _act_ as a plugin for Emacs, even though it 
remains a separate program.  The reason we want this is that simply 
dumping the AST might weaken GCC's copyleft in practice, but making GCC 
usable as a library will not.