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Re: Knoppix is not entirely free software
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Peter S Galbraith |
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Re: Knoppix is not entirely free software |
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Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:00:16 -0500 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:30:36 -0500
> > From: Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>
> > >
> > > If he has changed his policies in the meantime, please tell me; that
> > > would be good news. But otherwise, please do not recommend the use of
> > > Knoppix on GNU mailing lists. Please recommend only entirely free
> > > software.
> >
> > I'll likely regret this, but:
> >
> > $ grep netscape browse-url.el | wc
> > 38 161 2011
>
> The fact that Netscape is mentioned in browse-url.el doesn't mean
> Emacs recommends it, just that it uses it when it's the only tool to
> do a certain job. When a free and a non-free program can be used to
> do the same job, Emacs ought to use the free one, though. If you can
> spot such cases in browse-url, please report them as bugs.
That's not what RMS said a few weeks ago when he was told we had support
for glimpse in MH-E. He said:
: : I am a huge fan of mail indexing programs like: swish++, mairix,
: : glimpse, namazu etc.
:
: I seem to recall that glimpse is or was non-free. I don't know about
: the others. Can you check which of these are non-free? We don't
: want Gnus or MH-E to refer to them.
So we removed support for glimpse.
So how is netscape support in browse-url any different? Should we
revert that change from CVS?
(I _did_ say I'd regret bringing this up.)
Peter