Re: Request to include a couple of packages in GNU ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> Thanks for explaining.  Hoogle sounds like a useful took, for Haskell
> users.  What is the license of Hoogle?

Hoogle is a service, the source code behind the service seems to be
published under a BSD-3 license (?)

https://github.com/ndmitchell/hoogle?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

>   > There is web front end available at  https://hoogle.haskell.org/ but the
>   > package consult-hoogle is for using hoogle installed locally from within
>   > Emacs.
>
> Yes, that is the right way to do it.  Using someone else's sevrer
> to index code you have on your machine is bad for your freedom --
> see https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.
> Running Hoogle on your own machine (assuming Hoogle is free software)
> is the way that respects freedom.

The service they provide is having indexed a lot of haskell libraries,
more than most people want to have installed on their own machines.
That is why they refer to themselves as a search engine, because they
provide a discovery feature.