Re: [V] New package: ASN1

Simon> Isn't it the same thing as non-free Debian packages? No, it's not. Elisp files are _part of Emacs_ when you write a mode. They will interact with all the GPL code that already is part of Emacs, calling out to it, providing hooks to be called from it. You just can't argue that Emacs is functioning only as a Lisp language translator here, an analogy to GCC. It is also using the "editor library", which is analogous to glibc---which is _not_ GPL, as you may recall, it is LGPL precisely so that non-free apps can link with it. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py