From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:24:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0solt9t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35735"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 15:25:52 2021 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 1kxWEZ-00097J-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:25:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWEY-0005Vi-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWDA-0004ve-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWD8-0001aE-P1; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3359 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWD0-0004DH-6h; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:24:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:19 -0500) 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:262679 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:19 -0500 > > > Suppose I want to download a potentially non-free package to study its > > code, or even just to understand with what kind of license it is > > distributed (since you say the site itself doesn't tell) -- is this > > "verboten" as well in Jean Louis's interpretation of what a Free > > Software follower should and shouldn't do? > > The GNU Project would not criticize anyone for that. > Indeed, we don't generally criticize users for running nonfree programs. > And we don't claim the power to "forbid" anything (except for GPL violations). > You're condemning things which don't have to do with us. > > The issue at hand is not about what users are allowed to do. We are mis-communicating: I was talking about myself wearing the Emacs maintainer hat. See my other messages in this thread.