Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?

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  • homebrew-emacsmacport

    Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager

    • >the license explicitly allows you to fork Emacs

    There already is a fork of Emacs for Mac, which has been going strong for 12 years:

    https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

  • coreutils

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    • I have to agree. I saw FSF members argue with uutils coreutils [0] developers about having their project licensed under MIT. And for no good reason, they started attacking the project and the people behind it.

    I was a big fan of FSF until that point.

    [0] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

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  • nonguix

    • NixOS has had the new `nix` command for a long while, this bundles up all the functionality under one command just like `apt` or `guix`. It's still marked as experimental and has to be enabled manually, but once done you'll never have to touch any of the old commands ever again. The only problem left is that a lot of the documentation still refers to the old commands.

    > It is however a bummer that there's no socially-approved way to share packages of non-free software on the official channels

    There is https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

    That's one thing I prefer about NixOS, with Nix Flakes you can just turn any old Git repository into a package. No need to be part of any channels or need for the user to setup anything, you can just build and install straight from the upstream source with a single command line if they provide a `flake.nix` file. This automatically resolves a lot of pointless drama about what should or shouldn't be part of the distribution and makes it trivial to distribute patches and workarounds.

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