On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 19:24 +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Elis Hirwing <elis@hirwing.se> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 23:15 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> > > Elis Hirwing <elis@hirwing.se> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 16:05 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> > > > > Elis Hirwing <elis@hirwing.se> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I would like to submit a package that I maintain to the
> > > > > > NonGNU
> > > > > > ELPA,
> > > > > > it's currently on MELPA, I've been maintaining it for years
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > using
> > > > > > it for years.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Before someone else brings it up, have you considered adding
> > > > > the
> > > > > package
> > > > > to GNU ELPA?  Or are there reasons you are attempting to add
> > > > > the
> > > > > package
> > > > > to NonGNU ELPA first?
> > > > 
> > > > Partly because I haven't signed the CLA with GNU and that I have
> > > > contributors which I don't know if they have signed the CLA or
> > > > not,
> > > > so
> > > > I just found it easier that way.
> > > 
> > > Looking at the contributor list, I certainly recognise more than a
> > > few
> > > names that have signed the CA and I'd expect to agree when asked if
> > > they
> > > would want to add the package to ELPA.  It is up to you if you
> > > would
> > > want to ask your contributors or not.
> > > 
> > > If you are sure that ELPA is not the right place, then adding the
> > > package to NonGNU ELPA shouldn't be an issue, and would certainly
> > > be
> > > a
> > > worthwhile addition.
> > 
> > I've now considered this and would still prefer the NonGNU ELPA.
> > 
> > Partly due to the extra work to check for CLA's for me from future
> > contributors, then also that it may scare of future contributors that
> > (like me) haven't done the necessary paperwork.
> > 
> > ~ Elis
> 
> Could you please explain what "webpaste" services are?  Could they be
> SaaSS by any chance?

Think pastebin-like services (not actually supporting pastebin<dot>com
though). Yes they are in general SaaSS since the purpose of the mode is
to "share parts of or whole buffers" by uploading it somewhere and get
a link that can be shared. 

However, I also make it fairly easy to define your own services to use
and override which ones are used. So if you only want to use for own
hosted solution you can do so.

> Is the software run by these services free software, and can the user
> run them locally.

Some of them are for sure non-free software, but some of them are free
or open source software, one of the free solutions that can be hosted
by the user is bpa.st which uses the software pinnwand which is MIT
licensed: https://github.com/supakeen/pinnwand

There's helper functions specifically for pinnwand to make it easy to
create provider entries that uses pinnwand hosted in other places.

~ Elis