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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add ftable.el to ELPA
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:50:38 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f3aa5ba81ee1a8f837600c62dc4ddea@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735rrkq4p.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

On 2021-08-03 18:18, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Sorry for the misunderstanding. I had feeling that it is easier to get 
> a
> package included in MELPA than in ELPA. Maybe I misunderstood 
> something,
> but I thought that it is required that *all* authors need to sign the
> FSF copyright papers[1], while for MELPA GPL is sufficient, but maybe I
> am wrong.

That is one reason why it's good to be in GNU ELPA from the outset.

I.e. the thing you see as "easier" about MELPA is the very same thing
which might make it hard to subsequently move a package to ELPA; so
starting in MELPA might end up being counterproductive.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-02  1:14 Add ftable.el to ELPA Yuan Fu
2021-08-02  4:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-02 21:48   ` Yuan Fu
2021-08-02  6:45 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-08-02 12:59   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-08-02 14:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-03  6:18       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-08-03 12:50         ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-08-03 12:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-02 21:47   ` Yuan Fu
2021-08-03  6:23     ` Uwe Brauer
2021-09-25 13:51   ` Jean Louis

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