unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Are ELPA files "part of GNU Emacs"?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:38:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipgh25s0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbomacbc7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:29:29 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I see some ELPA files say they are part of GNU Emacs, some say they
>> are not part of GNU Emacs, some say they are part of another package
>> (e.g. auctex/tex.el is part of AUCTeX) -- and the rest say nothing.
>> I suggest they all say they are part of GNU ELPA, except for files in
>> packages like AUCTeX.
>
> I think they should not say they're part of Emacs, nor should they say
> they're not part of Emacs (they're kind of halfway, in my mind).

The question is regarding the GPL preamble in those files.

Richard---any opinion?



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-30  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-29 15:09 Are ELPA files "part of GNU Emacs"? Bastien
2012-04-30  0:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-30  4:38   ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-04-30 11:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-30 18:27     ` Richard Stallman
2012-05-01  8:30       ` Bastien
2012-05-01 11:49         ` Richard Stallman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87ipgh25s0.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=cyd@gnu.org \
    --cc=bzg@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=rms@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).