From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Alan Third Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 21:17:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20200512201727.GA50065@breton.holly.idiocy.org> References: <838shy9srs.fsf@gnu.org> <7f820b59-ebbc-18c7-9f08-104a7ba88dd2@gmail.com> <834kslao2y.fsf@gnu.org> <052569f9-0571-6471-7a27-f3d7b36497a0@gmail.com> <83sgg58ari.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxh847w.fsf@gnu.org> <834ksl833q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="29912"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii , phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, ndame@protonmail.com To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 22:22:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYbPl-0007ft-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 22:22:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33208 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYbPk-0008Bg-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 16:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYbOF-0005t1-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 16:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from idiocy.org ([217.169.17.33]:53216 helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYbOD-0003nL-2r; Tue, 12 May 2020 16:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: by breton.holly.idiocy.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 35D912022BFE0A; Tue, 12 May 2020 21:17:27 +0100 (BST) Mail-Followup-To: Alan Third , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit-Claudel , Eli Zaretskii , casouri@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ndame@protonmail.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: none client-ip=217.169.17.33; envelope-from=alan@breton.holly.idiocy.org; helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/12 16:17:28 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Mac OS X [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250037 Archived-At: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:48:01PM -0400, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote: > Now the problem is reduced to "does the author with this PGP key > have an assignment on file"? But this question can be answered in a > decentralized way (no need for an API): the FSF can just sign keys > instead. As if there aren’t enough people complaining about copyright assignment, now you want to force everyone to use the horror that is PGP/GPG? Good luck. -- Alan Third