Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I disagree with this interpretation. I certainly didn't think of it > > that way when I packaged them. > > > > While matlab and maple are certainly non-free software, the elisp files > > don't support these software directly. > > There are the autoloaded commands `matlab-shell' and `cmaple' to run > matlab and maple as subprocesses. Does that not mean direct support?
If that was the core of it, then yes it would. > Count yourself lucky if RMS does not notice you promoting maple and > matlab. ;-) I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I'm sure he had a c-mode before he had a free C compiler. I don't particularly agree with his views on what is free enough for documentation as well (e.g. his non-free sections). > > The elisp files are to help write scripts which can be under any > > license, including free ones. > > My objection was that you still need the non-free third party software > to actually _run_ those scripts. :-( > Anyway, it seems that your point of view is generally accepted, as I found > three Emacs add-on packages in main which also help to write scripts > for non-free interpreters, namely inform-mode, lpc-mode and tads2-mode. > > > I don't even have matlab in my system but can read .m files more > > easily with matlab-mode. > > Okay, than matlab-mode is not so useless after all, I see. > Fortunately, you don't enforce that on other people by changing > auto-mode-alist. > > > If you still disagree, I guess we can ask debian-devel or debian-policy. > > While I would still prefer a different package for these files, I am > sufficiently convinced that it is no policy violation to leave them in > the main section. So I've downgraded the severity to "wishlist". Thanks for being reasonable about an alternative point of view on it. It's a fine line, but I don't think I have crossed it. I'm sure there are others within Debian who would disagree with me, so this topic may come up again at some point. Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
