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Re: Emacs ffi


From: Anselm Helbig
Subject: Re: Emacs ffi
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:57:13 +0200

At Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT),
"laynor@gmail.com" <laynor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've seen SXEmacs has a foreign function interface, any chance it will
> also be in mainstream FSF Emacs?

RMS doesn't like it because it would allow to link emacs with non-free
binary code. This leads to many possible licensing problems with
regard to the GPL that RMS wants to avoid. We already have a similar
situation with the Linux kernel. Search the emacs-devel archives for
some discussions about this, e.g.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00398.html

The pragmatic me would also very much like to see a FFI in GNU Emacs,
but it's also a political issue, unfortunately.

HTH, 

Anselm


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