From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:07:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftctb3ig.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="71937"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ndame@protonmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 12:08:52 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 1jRvGO-000Ibu-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58632 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRvGN-0005JC-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRvFg-0004lO-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRvFe-0003Tg-S1; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3954 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jRvFe-0002iC-5d; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:08:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:53 -0400) 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:247683 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:53 -0400 > Cc: Yuan Fu , ndame , > Emacs developers > > The mindset on github is one that doesn't encourage careful > consideration of licensing and authorship but instead encourages > "happy sharing" [ Paradoxically, the FSF's insistence on tracking > copyright assignments makes this very problematic (even tho, "happy > sharing" is really what we all want to do) unless it's between people > who we know have signed the copyright paperwork. ] I don't see that as a paradox. The world of Free Software is much larger than the world of GNU projects. The FSF is advancing the former to encourage "happy sharing", but exercise extra caution with the latter.