Re: Supporting non-free SQL clients in ob-sql (was: [PATCH] ob-sql: Add support for Athena)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I am not sure about SaaSS - even postgresql (free software) may be used
  > as a service provider by running it on server the user does not control.

For sure, it CAN be used that way.  If a Lisp package is designed to
work with a subprocess, a user can certainly rig it to talk with a
remote server.  It is the nature of free software that people can
customize it, even so as to do something foolish with it.  When a user
does this, it's per responsibility, not ours.

We should not distribute specific support or recommendations to use
the Lisp package in that particular way.

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