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Re: Checking in files with trailing white space
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Checking in files with trailing white space |
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Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:31:07 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:39:23 -0800
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> > I'm not sure this is relevant here. E.g., we distribute Emacs sources
> > as a compressed archive, not as a set of plain-text files.
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> That is merely an issue of efficient data transfer. We use a convenient
> format (compressed tarball) that is universally understood to stand for
> a set of source files, and it's OK to do that.
My point is that providing compressed text files in the distribution
doesn't violate the GPL or its spirit. Legal obligations are more
important than efficiency considerations, so if compressing sources
would violate the GPL, we would already be violating it.
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/11
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/12/11
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13