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Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:59:10 -0500 |
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> > I think they are software, because they could be modified within an
> > infinite space of possibilities.
> A picture can be modified within an infinite space of possibilities. A
> book can be modified. A mathematical equation can be modified.
That is true, but you've taken the question I raised for myself out of
its context. The real question is, "In the context, is there any
doubt that this is a piece of software? If not, what else could it
be?
I think it is clear that a specification of a data structure, meant to
guide a program's operation on that data, is software. It is
comparable to a bunch of struct and enum declarations which is how we
use C header files to show the structure of other data.
It may be true that any changes you make in these schemas would be
tightly constrained _if you want them to interoperate with ODF_. The
same is true for system header files, as long as you're going to use
with GNU libc. The latter must be under a free license, and for the same
reasons the former also.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, (continued)
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/27
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/26
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/26
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/26
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