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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161
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Po Lu |
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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161 |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:27:46 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:04 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is Electron free software? If so, what is its license,
> and what does Emacs do that Electron does not support?
> (If there are lots of things, a few important ones would
> be enough of an answer.)
To answer your questions:
- Electron is mostly under a free license, but is non-free, due
to non-free blobs. AFAICT, it's also patent-encumbered.
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1167
- Electron is basically Google's Chromium browser, bundled
up as an app development platform.
- You're going to have a lot of issues if you try making
Emacs use Electron. For one, you're going to have to write
a large part of the UI in JavaScript code, and then have it
play well with C code.
Electron is non-free software, and that alone disqualifies it from
being used in Emacs, so there's that.
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161,
Po Lu <=