Re: Emba project visibility

[Michael Albinus]

Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Joel,

> Regarding a more sophisticated protection mechanism such as Anubis, it
> and others are getting a lot of discussion amongst the FSF tech staff
> as all of the FSF assets are getting assaulted by the same things that
> were bringing down EMBA. I am monitoring that discussion for things
> that I can use with EMBA, but the current view is that Anubis doesn't
> comply with FSF's freedom standards because it uses JS.

IIRC, the problem is not JS itself, but whether the used JS package fits
the free software license requirements. But I'm not an expert in this.

> I don't know if this would be a concern for the Emacs dev community,

I cannot speak for Emacs, this is up to the maintainers. But as a head
prject of GNU, Emacs is always following the requirements strictly. And
this is good.

> but I was nonetheless hoping for alternative ideas to surface (and
> this might be happening...)

Hmm. I have no other idea. But I guess the FSF must find a solution
anyway. We could follow then.

> Regards,
>
>        - Joel

Best regards, Michael.