From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrating package.el Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:33:59 +0900 Message-ID: <87ocl242jc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zl50jv52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d41rn3wt.fsf_-_@hagelb.org> <87k4vxiwlj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wcdjg9r.fsf@hagelb.org> <87637gh73j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87637b96pc.fsf@hagelb.org> <87wrzr6ugo.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263122727 30280 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2010 11:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, elpa@tromey.com, Phil Hagelberg , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 12:25:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NTvv4-0001P5-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NTvv4-0003as-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NTvux-0003ah-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NTvus-0003WO-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50456 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NTvus-0003WK-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48060) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NTvuo-00024i-C7; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC44821A; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:24:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B3991A2C00; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:33:59 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119779 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Naturally, it's up to whoever manually curates the index to ensure the > package follows the guidelines for that archive. For the FSF archive(s) > it would mean ensuring copyright assignment is in place; for folks who > want to maintain their own archives it would probably be something > simpler like making sure it's licensed as free software. > > I am worried that this will lead to a problem. > Namely, there may be increasing numbers of packages > that we can't get adequate papers for and can't put into Emacs. This is a problem as opposed to increasing numbers of packages that are available only to their authors and you can't put into Emacs? At least this way you'll have a contact address for authors.