Re: Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I would like to have GNU Emacs available in the Flatpak [1] format.

We need to think about whether it raises any ethical issues.

What systems can a Flatpak package run on?

What software is needed to make a Flatpak?  Is any of it nonfree?
What software is needed to run one?  Is any of it nonfree?

  > To get going with this, I have written a simple flatpak packaging [2] of 
  > Emacs, and based on a few days of testing it seems to be working pretty 
  > nicely for my needs.

If you've done this with solely free software, that answers the first two
questions in a good way.


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