From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are ELPA files "part of GNU Emacs"? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:38:23 +0800 Message-ID: <87ipgh25s0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87liled17y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335760726 23914 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2012 04:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 06:38:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNo-00027p-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:38:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNn-0004Ei-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNk-0004ER-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNi-00034x-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNi-00034t-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.17.55] (port=59851 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiNa-0004NJ-6h; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:38:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:29:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150148 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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?