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: splash-screen Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:51:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83tuvkrhlb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d02ej7bq.fsf@gnus.org> <874knoekki.fsf@gnus.org> <87mu1fb8kb.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34854"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 11:52:11 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 1kM6sF-0008xv-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:52:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49760 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6sE-0006TF-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6rl-00062G-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6rk-0004E2-Bw; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3849 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6rb-0002ux-3z; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:51:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:256452 Archived-At: > From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:45:11 -0400 > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, nicolas.rougier@inria.fr > > On 25.09.2020 07:38, Richard Stallman wrote: > > If there is an important reason to change it, I will consult again. > > But that would take considerable time and effort, and so far I have > > not seen an important reason to change it. > > One would think that being told again and again, by various people > including a current and former Emacs maintainer, that it is an > unnecessary nuisance, would be such reason. > > Emacs maintainers aren't legal exprts, so they are not the best to > decide if it is unnecessary or not This is not about making a decision based on what the maintainers say, this is about consulting with legal experts based on what they say. IOW, the issue is whether what the maintainers say is a reason important enough to consult with legal experts about this.